564 So. 2d 783 - State v. Mercer’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently December 2016
6 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on 388 So. 2d 664 - State v. Baldwin · 380 So. 2d 1340 - State v. Fisher · State v. Taylor · State v. George · State v. Watts
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Defendant's evidence on a motion for a change of plea need not preponderate so as to establish the insanity defense, but must suggest some evidentiary basis for the plea. Good cause is simply an indication of some evidentiary basis for the insanity plea and is something less than a preponderance of the evidence. . . . . At the hearing of a motion for a change of plea the issue is not whether defendant can prove the insanity defense by a preponderance of the evidence at the trial. C.Cr.P. Art. 652. Where the "indicia" of an evidentiary basis, or good cause, for the change of plea is lacking, . . . the trial court does not abuse its discretion in denying the motion for the change. Where the "indicia" is greater, however, a trial court may be found to have abused its discretion by denying the motion for a change of plea.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The' defendant’s burden of showing good cause for a'change of plea logically increases each day that his trial date nears. The defendant waited over three years, until ’the first workday before tnal, 124to file a motion to change his pleas. He presented no evidence that he did not understand the difference between right and wrong at the time he committed the offense. Moreover, an expert who evaluated the defendant found that whatever disease or mental defect he may have had did not prevent him from being able to distinguish right from wrong at the time of the offense. Accordingly, the trial court did not abuse its discretion in refusing to allow the defendant to change his pleas.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“of an evidentiary basis, or good cause, for the change of plea is lacking, . . . the trial court does not abuse its discretion in denying the motion for the change. Where the”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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