Badger v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “A court has the power to revisit prior deci-gions of its own or of a coordinate court in any cireumstance, although as a rule courts should be loathe to do so in the absence of extraordinary circumstances such as where the initial decision was clearly erroneous and would work manifest injustice.”

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

2. “compelled to conclude that because of the erroneous advisement of the trial court relating to the consecutive sentences, Badger: did not knowingly, intelligently, and voluntarily enter into the plea agreement mandating consecutive sentences.”

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

3. “[W]e cannot sanction an illegal sentence simply because it was the product of an agreement.... Courts are duty bound to correct illegal sentences.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Parrett v. State