State v. Carpenter’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
80 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably State v. Harrison (2009), State v. Zima (2004)
80 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 Santobello v. New York · State v. Thomas · State v. Nelson · State v. Lordan
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he state cannot indict a defendant * * * after the court has accepted a negotiated guilty plea to a lesser offense * * * unless the state expressly reserves the right to file additional charges on the record at the time of the defendant's plea.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage“an essential and necessary part of the administration of justice.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Jackson · State v. Bridges“'must be attended by safeguards to insure the defendant what is reasonably due in the circumstances.'”
2 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.