Sedberry v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently September 2010
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 Dowell v. State · Williams v. State · Leonard v. State · Martin v. State · Kirkham 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.
“[the trial court must establish a record showing that the defendant was aware of the nature, extent, and importance of the right and the consequences of waiving it. Merely informing the defendant of his constitutional rights is insufficient.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Hopper v. State · Poynter v. State“It seems to me that there can be no more critical stage of a criminal proceeding than the decision to plead guilty and waive one's right to a trial by the court or a jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Hopper v. State
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.