6 Cal. 3d 666 - In Re Sutherland’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
117 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 117 later decisions — most recently August 2003 · most notably 13 Cal. 3d 592 - Bunnell v. Superior Court (1975), 10 Cal. 3d 857 - In Re Yurko (1974)
117 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 Boykin v. Alabama · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Santobello v. New York · Pointer v. Texas · Duncan v. State of Louisiana
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 117 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“assure that the record demonstrably discloses the defendant knows of and voluntarily waives the three specified rights [against self-incrimination, to a jury trial, and to confront adverse witnesses] surrendered by a guilty plea.”
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.