Wallace v. Turner’s Empirical Analysis
695 F.2d 545 · 1983
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably United States v. Newman (1990), Paulsen v. Manson (1987)
17 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on North Carolina v. Alford · Bonner v. City of Prichard · McCarthy v. United States · Greenholtz v. Inmates of Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex · Nogueras v. Puerto Rico International Airlines, Inc.
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[T]he purpose of placing the facts on the record is not to establish guilt as a basis for a judgment of conviction. Rather it is to aid in the constitutionally required determination that the defendant entered the plea intelligently and voluntarily. . . . A factual basis demonstrates a defendant's recognition — despite his denial of guilt — that the evidence negates his claim of innocence, he has nothing to gain by a trial, and much to gain by pleading guilty." (Citations omitted.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In the face of a claim of innocence a judicial finding of some factual basis for defendant's guilt is an essential part of the constitutionally-required finding of a voluntary and intelligent decision to plead guilty.”
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.