State v. Corbitt’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2013 · most notably Corbitt v. New Jersey (1978), State v. Lagares (1992)
35 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 · Brady v. United States · Santobello v. New York · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Furman v. Georgia
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.
“The court, in its discretion, may refuse to accept a plea of guilty and shall not accept such plea without first addressing the defendant personally and determining by inquiry of the defendant and others, in the court’s discretion, that there is a factual basis for the plea and that the plea is made voluntarily, not as the result of any threats or any promises or inducements not disclosed on the record, and with an understanding of the nature of the charge and the consequences of the plea [i?. 3:9-2 (emphasis added).]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. McQuaid“[I]n the area of classification of criminal or penal offenders for purposes of penalty or punishment the Legislature may provide for differences of treatment so long as there is some rational connection between the classification and a proper legislative purpose.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“encouragement of guilty defendants not to contest their guilt is at the very heart of an effective plea negotiation program.”
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.