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611 So. 2d 1250 - Simmons v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1992

Citation profile

40
cited by 40 later decisions
1
states following
July 2019
most recently cited

40 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably 689 So. 2d 235 - State v. Leroux (1996), Watrous v. State (2001)

40 state decisions

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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 Walker v. City of Birmingham · 486 So. 2d 592 - Funchess v. Wainwright · Trujillo v. United States · 413 So. 2d 461 - Zambuto v. State · 480 So. 2d 228 - Ray 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “a trial court is always well-advised, when accepting a plea, to ascertain whether any promises were made to the defendant apart from those discussed during the plea colloquy.”
    5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Resta v. State · Neeb v. State
  2. “an attorney who promises a certain favorable result—particularly one who does so to convince the client that a `maximum' sentence is shorter than it appears—operates at the risk he or she later will be accused of ineffectiveness.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Dolan v. State · 689 So. 2d 1107 - Turner v. State
  3. “[n]either the trial court nor counsel is required to forewarn a defendant about every conceivable collateral consequence of a plea to criminal charges”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Valle v. State · 890 So. 2d 280 - Rodriguez 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.