Chae v. People’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably State v. Parker (1994), Michael J. CRAIG v. The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado (1999)
1 federal appellate · 40 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Brady v. United States · Henderson v. Morgan · Bozza v. United States · Vaca v. Sipes · United States v. Minor
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W] hen a defendant enters into a plea agreement that includes as a material element a recommendation for an illegal sentence and the illegal sentence is in fact imposed on the defendant , the guilty plea is invalid and must be vacated because the basis on which the defendant entered the plea included the impermissible inducement of an illegal sentence.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“When it shall appear to the satisfaction of the court that the ends of justice and the best interest of the public, as well as the defendant, will be best served thereby, the court shall have the power to suspend the imposition or execution of sentence for such period and upon such terms and conditions as it may deem best.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Nastiuk · People v. Seals“a right to benefit from illegal sentences.” People v. District Court, 673 P.2d 991 , 997 (Colo. 1983). ”[N]o sound public policy supports allowing the parties to bargain for an illegal sentence, and we cannot uphold a plea bargain that has as its object an illegal sentence.” Chae, 780 P.2d at 487 ; see also State v. Nemeth, 214 N.J.Super. 324 , 519 A.2d 367, 368 (A.D.1986) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.