State v. Thorup’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently June 2025
11 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 State v. Gibbons · Tolman v. Salt Lake County Attorney · State v. Maguire · State v. Saunders · State v. Branch
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] plea of guilty ... may be withdrawn only upon good cause shown and with leave of the [trial] court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“''the evidence presented shows nothing more than an attorney counseling the defendant and his family with regard to what he considers to be the best approach, knowing all of the facts from the defendant's point of view and giving his considered judgment and advice to the defendant and his family that the plea barg[alin was in the defendant's best interest."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Walker“This liberal-approach language, ... is directed to the trial court's exercise of discretion. The language in no way alters the statutory requirement of good cause for the withdrawal of a guilty plea nor our abuse-of-discretion standard of review.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ruiz
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.