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572 F.2d 1 · 1978

Citation profile

38
cited by 38 later decisions
1
cited 1 times by the Supreme Court
7
states following
June 2009
most recently cited

11 federal appellate · 2 district · 12 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 38 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2009 · most notably Godinez v. Moran (1993), Ciummei v. Commonwealth (1979)

11 federal appellate · 2 district · 12 state decisions

2401978198019902000decided

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 North Carolina v. Alford · Sibron v. State of New York Peters · Dusky v. United States · Henderson v. Morgan · Sieling v. Eyman

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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “the subjective belief in one's own innocence does not render a guilty plea constitutionally suspect as long as there are grounds for doubting the reliability of that belief and for calculating that one's defense at trial would most likely be unsuccessful.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “the degree of confusion or incapacity demonstrated by the defendant, the information available to the defendant to help him make his decision, and the importance of the defendant's calculations of the legal principles which he did not comprehend.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “has sufficient present ability to consult with his lawyer with a reasonable degree of rational understanding--and whether he has a rational as well as a factual understanding of the proceedings against him.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.