Miller v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently August 2018
23 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 North Carolina v. Alford · Cooksey v. State · Torockio v. Chamberlain Mfg. Co · Gieffels v. State · State v. Carlson
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he only inquiry permitted the trial court by Criminal Rule 11 is that of determining whether the plea [of no contest] is knowing and voluntary.... [O]nce the trial court determines that a plea of nolo contendere is knowing and voluntary, [the court] is bound to accept that plea.... Subsection (f) [of Criminal Rule 11], by its terms[,] applies only to guilty pleas.... [T]o require a defendant to show that there is a reasonable basis for a plea of nolo contendere puts the defendant in the awkward position of having to demonstrate his guilt in order to be allowed to plead nolo contendere. Such a practice destroys the unique purpose of the nolo [contendere] plea, which is that the issue of guilt shall not be contested.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Lamb v. Anderson · Jones v. State“The court shall not enter a judgment upon a plea of guilty without first being satisfied that there is a reasonable basis for the plea.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Lamb v. Anderson · Jones v. State“admit to the court that there was a reasonable [factual] basis for the pleas, ... or the pleas would be considered withdrawn. 3 When the defendant refused to acknowledge that he was factually guilty, the superior court directed that his no contest pleas were to be ignored. 4 The defendant then appealed. The supreme court reversed the superior court, declaring that "[iJn Alaska, a defendant may plead nolo contendere as a matter of right.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jones v. State
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