Smith v. Blackburn’s Empirical Analysis
785 F.2d 545 · 1986
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably United States v. Pollard (1992), Graefenhain v. Pabst Brewing Co. (1989)
22 federal appellate · 2 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 Brady v. United States · Santobello v. New York · Sibron v. State of New York Peters · Blackledge v. Allison · Commissioner v. Engle
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen a defendant pleads guilty on the basis of a promise by his defense attorney or the prosecutor, whether or not such promise is fulfillable, breach of that promise taints the voluntariness of his plea.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““[T]he proof of the promises made to Smith in this case is not merely an explanation of parole proceedings by a defendant’s lawyer, or a petitioner’s unsubstantiated assertions. Rather, the petitioner has shown that a promise was made to him and was not kept, clearly comporting with the standard of proof required by our prior decisions.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jasper v. Blackburn“"[I]f he [Smith] had asked me, you know. How much time would I serve? — I would have likely told him You are going to serve 10 years and six months, because you are going to be eligible for parole after 10 years and 6 months. And everybody who serves on good behavior gets paroled."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jasper v. Blackburn
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.