State v. Xie’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2,098 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,101 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably State v. Ketterer (2010), State v. Simpkins (2008)
1 federal appellate · 2,098 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 Strickland v. Washington · North Carolina v. Alford · Hill v. Lockhart · State v. Adams · State v. Smith
Cited together with Strickland v. Washington · State v. Smith · 68 Ohio App. 2d 211 - State v. Peterseim · Hill v. Lockhart · 104 Ohio App. 3d 236 - State v. Fish
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 2,101 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] defendant does not have an absolute right to withdraw a guilty plea prior to sentencing.”
175 later decisions quote this exact passage“A motion to withdraw a plea of guilty or no contest may be made only before sentence is imposed; but to correct manifest injustice the court after sentence may set aside the judgment of conviction and permit the defendant to withdraw his or her plea.”
146 later decisions quote this exact passage“[o]ne who enters a guilty plea has no right to withdraw it.”
58 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.