James W. Willett v. State of Georgia’s Empirical Analysis
608 F.2d 538 · 1979
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2023 · most notably Haring v. Prosise (1983), State v. Barboza (1989)
25 federal appellate · 19 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 · North Carolina v. Alford · Townsend v. Sain · Nogueras v. Puerto Rico International Airlines, Inc. · National Labor Relations Board v. Burns International Security Services, Inc.
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the face of a claim of innocence a judicial finding of some factual basis for defendant's guilt is an essential part of the constitutionally-required finding of a voluntary and intelligent decision to plead guilty.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to resolve the conflict between the waiver of trial and the claim of innocence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“generalized admissions or statements by a defendant's counsel [do not] meet the requirement that the court be satisfied that there is a factual basis for the plea.... Such generalized admissions or statements are totally inconsistent with the purposes of Rule 11....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.