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← 776 SO2D 679 - Lewis v. State

Lewis v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2000

Citation profile

6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
November 2014
most recently cited

5 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Santobello v. New York · Evans v. State · Myers v. State · 584 So. 2d 786 - Grubb v. State · 708 So. 2d 73 - Ford v. State

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

  1. “when 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, such promise must be fulfilled.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “if the defendant is found to have detrimentally relied on the State's promise made pursuant to his plea, the State is bound by the provisions of that plea agreement.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “shall take into consideration that fact, and in [its] discretion, not dismiss meritorious complaints simply because they are not artfully drafted.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.