Willbright v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
745 F.2d 779 · 1984
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Paulsen v. Manson (1987), Tate v. Wood (1992)
13 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 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 Boykin v. Alabama · North Carolina v. Alford · Brady v. United States · Santobello v. New York · McCarthy v. United States
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“one way of satisfying the constitutional requirement that a [guilty] plea be voluntary and intelligent,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a significant factor in determining whether a plea is intelligently and voluntarily entered is whether it was based on the advice of competent counsel.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hanson v. Phillips
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.