Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently October 2016
8 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 Gissendanner v. State · 581 So. 2d 1305 - State v. James · 493 So. 2d 489 - Toler v. State · 572 So. 2d 1368 - Larson v. State · 589 So. 2d 1370 - Johnson 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“One who pleads nolo contendere or guilty without an express reservation of right to appeal, is not barred from maintaining a direct appeal on the following limited class of issues which occur contemporaneously with entry of the plea: (1) subject matter jurisdiction, (2) illegality of the sentence, (3) government's failure to abide by the terms of the plea bargain, and (4) voluntary and intelligent character of the plea... . Further, a criminal defendant cannot, by virtue of a plea bargain, confer upon a court the authority to impose an illegal sentence... . Consequently, the fact that appellant's sentences as an habitual offender were the result of a plea bargain would not preclude him from contesting the legality of the sentence.”
2 later decisions 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.