Rodriguez v. Ricketts’s Empirical Analysis
777 F.2d 527 · 1985
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently December 2012 · most notably United States v. Ullyses-Salazar (1994), Zal v. Steppe (1992)
27 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on North Carolina v. Alford · Cuyler v. Sullivan · McCarthy v. United States · United States v. Timmreck · Roddy v. Black
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the due process clause does not impose on a state court the duty to establish a factual basis for a guilty plea absent special circumstances.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he failure to give specific advice to the petitioner of a right against self-incrimination will not invalidate a plea where it otherwise appears that the petitioner was aware that he had the right not to plead guilty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Miller v. Ducharme
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.