Shoemaker v. Mayo’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 state decisions

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

1. ““There can be no valid doubt, from a study of the transcript of testimony taken at the hearing, that the petitioner was legally competent at the time he agreed with his counsel of record that the plea of not guilty should be withdrawn and a plea of guilty to the offense charged should be tendered. There is not one scintilla of evidence in the record to suggest that at the time this action was taken by the attorney at the request of the petitioner, the latter was, or ever had been, under the influence of narcotics. Indeed, the petitioner’s own sworn testimony given at the hearing plainly and unequivocally refutes any such contention. ****** From the record in the cause we find that the petitioner was lawfully tried and convicted of the crime for which he is being held and that his release from custody should be denied. Accordingly it is ordered that the proceeding in habeas corpus be dismissed and that the petitioner be remanded to custody.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 252 So. 2d 369 - Shoemaker v. State