Fransaw v. Lynaugh’s Empirical Analysis
810 F.2d 518 · 1987
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 3 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably Beverly A. Seymour v. Diane Walker,respondent-Appellee (2000), United States v. Garcia-Rosa (1989)
39 federal appellate · 3 district · 20 state decisions — followed in 13 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 North Carolina v. Pearce · Santobello v. New York · Burks v. United States · Benton v. Maryland · Sandstrom v. Montana
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e discern in the cases a judicial regard for fairness, namely, a defendant should not be able to reject, a plea bargain and then erect the shield of double jeopardy to the revived counts.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]hen defendant repudiates the plea bargain, either by withdrawing the plea or by successfully challenging his conviction on appeal, there is no double jeopardy (or other) obstacle to restoring the relationship between defendant and state as it existed prior to the defunct bargain.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]e will not consider [this issue] because of our well-established practice of refusing to address issues raised for the first time on appeal.”
2 later decisions 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.