People v. MacRander’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably State v. Warren (1989), Michael J. CRAIG v. The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado (1999)
26 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 Santobello v. New York · Gerstein v. Pugh · Mabry v. Johnson · Mabry v. Johnson · United States v. Peter A. Crusco and Phillip A. Cimmino. Appeal of Phillip Cimmino
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen a plea rests in any significant degree on a promise or agreement of the prosecutor, so that it can be said to be part of the inducement or consideration, the promise must be fulfilled.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. St. James v. People“make or not to oppose favorable recommendations concerning the sentence to be imposed if the defendant enters a plea of guilty or nolo contendere.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`no other remedy is appropriate to effectuate the accused's legitimate expectation engendered by the governmental promise.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. St. James v. People
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.