State v. Baptista’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
1 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently April 2018
1 district · 9 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 · State v. Feng · State v. McParlin · Narragansett Improvement Co. v. Falcone · State v. Tessier
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he Alford plea enables a trial justice to accept a defendant's guilty plea even though the defendant maintains his or her innocence as long as the state presents a factual basis for the plea other than the defendant's own admission.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a Rule 35 [of the Superior Court Rules of Criminal Procedure] motion determination is a prerequisite to an appeal to this court as to the propriety of a sentence;”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Page 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.