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632 F.2d 1261 · 1980

Citation profile

26
cited by 26 later decisions
2
states following
March 2008
most recently cited

15 federal appellate · 2 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Boykin v. Alabama · Brady v. United States · McMann v. Richardson · Tollett v. Henderson · Texas v. Louisiana

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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[defendant's subjective belief that he could not get a fair trial * * * is not sufficient to invalidate a guilty plea. * * * Only when a constitutional violation has actually coerced his decision to plead guilty, can the guilty plea be invalidated.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “The seriousness of guilty pleas thereby mandate that they 'not only must be voluntary but must be knowing, intelligent acts done with sufficient awareness of the relevant circumstances.'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “A plea of guilty is more than a confession which admits that the accused did various acts; it is itself a conviction; nothing remains but to give judgment and determine punishment.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

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.