People v. Seaberg’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably United States v. Navarro-Botello (1990), 112 Ohio App. 3d 683 - State v. Butts (1996)
8 federal appellate · 34 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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.
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he final and prompt conclusion of litigation is an important goal of public policy in criminal as well as civil litigation, provided always that the settlement is fair, free from oppressiveness, and sensitive to the interests of both the accused and the [State].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The trial court determines that it meets those requirements by considering all the relevant facts and circumstances surrounding the waiver, including the nature and terms of the agreement, and the age, experience and background of the accused.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“defendant's appreciation of the value of the right to appeal is far more refined after guilt or innocence has been decided by trial than before.”
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.