State v. Breckenridge’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
1 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently November 2020
1 district · 20 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 · McCarthy v. United States · Pratt v. City Council of City of Riverton · Clicque v. United States · State v. Harris
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he general rule that constitutional issues not raised at trial cannot be raised on appeal is excepted to when a person's liberty is at stake.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Johnson · State v. Johnson“determine that the defendant 'possesses an understanding of the law in relation to the facts'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(e) The court may refuse to accept a plea of guilty or no contest and shall not accept such a plea until the court has made the findings: (1) That if the defendant is not represented by counsel he has knowingly waived his right to counsel and does not desire counsel; (2) That the plea is voluntarily made; (3) That the defendant knows he has rights against compulsory self-incrimination, to a jury trial and to confront and cross-examine in open court the witnesses against him, and that by entering the plea he waives all of those rights; (4) That the defendant understands the nature and elements of the offense to which he is entering the plea; that upon trial the prosecution would have the burden of proving each of those elements beyond a reasonable doubt; and that the plea is an admission of all those elements; (5) That the defendant knows the minimum and maximum sentence that may be imposed upon him for each offense to which a plea is entered, including the possibility of the imposition of consecutive sentences; and (6) Whether the tendered plea is a result of a prior plea discussion and plea agreement and if so, what agreement has been reached.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hoff
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.