75 Okla. Crim. 42 - Bennett v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 state decisions

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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The general rule of law is that an application to withdraw a plea of guilty is addressed to the sound discretion of the trial court; the law favors the trial of criminal cases on the merits and where it reasonably appears a plea of guilty was influenced by persons in authority or apparent authority which has led a defendant to believe that by entering a plea of guilty his punishment will be thereby mitigated, he should be permitted to withdraw the plea of guilty and to enter a plea of not guilty, and the refusal to permit him to do so is an abuse of discretion. * * ⅜ * * * “A defendant should not be allowed to trifle with the court by deliberately, with the advice of counsel, entering a plea of guilty one day and capriciously withdrawing it, after several delays at the request of defendant, on the day set for pronouncing judgment."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Weatherford v. State

2. ““A plea of guilty should he entirely voluntary by one competent to know the consequences and should not be induced by fear, persuasion, promise or ignorance.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Abel v. State