649 So. 2d 214 - Bennett v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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16 state decisions

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

1. “"[T]he failure to inform a criminal defendant of the minimum and maximum sentencing possibilities constitutes a defect in the guilty plea that goes to the voluntariness of the plea and subjects it to a collateral challenge under Boykin v. Alabama , 395 U.S. 238 , 89 S.Ct. 1709 , 23 L.Ed.2d 274 (1969)."”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Peoples v. State · 647 So. 2d 87 - Tillery v. State

2. ““[Tjhis Court and the Court of Criminal Appeals have consistently held that a defendant must be informed of the maximum and minimum possible sentences as an absolute constitutional prerequisite to the acceptance of a guilty plea.... [[Image here]] “ ‘[W]hen a sentence is clearly illegal or not authorized by statute, the defendant does not need to object at the trial level in order to preserve that issue for appellate review.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 892 So. 2d 372 - Parks v. State

3. “" Boykin v. Alabama , 395 U.S. 238 , 89 S.Ct. 1709 , 23 L.Ed.2d 274 (1969), established the procedural due process requirements that must be met before a guilty plea can be considered to have been voluntarily and intelligently entered. . . .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Peoples v. State