State v. McFarland’s Empirical Analysis

1991

Citation profile

cited by 13 later decisions

states following

October 2000

most recently cited

13 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Santobello v. New York · 416 So. 2d 82 - State Ex Rel. LaFleur v. Donnelly · 337 So. 2d 1131 - State v. Sanders · 423 So. 2d 1111 - State v. Hayes · 389 So. 2d 1271 - State v. Langendorfer

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

“When a guilty plea rests in any significant degree on a promise or agreement of the prosecutor, so that it can be said to have been a part of the inducement or consideration, such promise must be fulfilled.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. 670 So. 2d 693 - State v. Fifteen Thousand Four Hundred Thirty-One Dollars & Other Property
“`the discretion to charge a defendant under the Habitual Offender Law lies with the district attorney and no one else.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. 623 So. 2d 47 - State v. Young

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.