Lewis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably Ladd v. State (1977), Hensel v. State (1979)
27 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Johnson v. Zerbst · McCarthy v. United States · First National Bank in Plant City v. Dickinson · Zatsky v. United States · Love v. State
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) The court shall allow the defendant to withdraw his plea of guilty or nolo conten-dere whenever the defendant, upon a timely motion for withdrawal, proves that withdrawal is necessary to correct manifest injustice. (i)A motion for withdrawal is timely and is not barred because made subsequent to judgment or sentence if it is made with due diligence. (ii) Withdrawal is necessary to correct a manifest injustice whenever the defendant demonstrates that: (aa) He was denied the effective assistance of counsel guaranteed to him by constitution, statute or rule, or (bb) The plea was not entered or ratified by the defendant or a person authorized to so act in his behalf, or (cc) The plea was involuntary, or was entered without knowledge of the charge or that the sentence actually imposed could be imposed, or (dd) He did not receive the charge or sentence concessions contemplated by the plea agreement, and (A) the prosecuting attorney failed to seek or opposed the concessions promised in the plea agreement or (B) after being advised that the court no longer concurred and after being called upon to affirm or withdraw his plea, he did not affirm his plea. (iii) The defendant may move for withdrawal of his plea without alleging he is innocent of the charge to which the plea has been entered. (2) Once the plea has been accepted by the court and absent a showing that withdrawal is necessary to correct a manifest injustice, a defendant may not withdraw his plea of guilty or nolo contend”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Peterson v. State · Gordon v. State“[W]e have determined to treat violations of Criminal Rule 11(c) in the same manner as other errors not of constitutional dimension — reversible only if they affect substantial rights of the defendant, [footnote omitted]”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Padie v. State · Morgan v. State“of the mandatory minimum punishment, if any, and the maximum possible punishment provided by the statute defining the offense to which the plea is offered. .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Morgan v. State · Aiken v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.