Melde v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2010
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
January 2017
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Johnson · Williams v. State · Zenanko v. State · State v. Anyanwu · State v. Moe
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The ultimate judicial responsibility must be to make reasonably certain that a person innocent of any crime has not been improperly induced to plead guilty to a crime. It is likewise a judicial responsibility to protect society against a defendant’s being permitted to bargain for a plea excessively lenient for the gravity of the crime apparently in fact committed. Although the court should neither usurp the responsibility of counsel nor participate in the plea bargaining negotiation itself, its proper role of discreet inquiry into the propriety of the settlement submitted for judicial acceptance cannot seriously be doubted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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