882 So. 2d 724 - State v. Brooks’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

20 state decisions

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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “When a guilty plea is otherwise voluntary, there is no necessity to ascertain a factual basis for that plea unless the accused protests his innocence or for some other reason the trial court is put on notice that there is a need for such an inquiry. In that event, due process requires a judicial finding of a significant factual basis for the defendant's plea.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 112 So. 3d 409 - State v. Nash · 893 So. 2d 945 - State v. Johnson

2. “that there was a need for further inquiry into the facts when the district attorney dropped the firearms from the list of stolen things in Count 2. The panel in Brooks stated that since the guilty plea was not an Alford plea, the court was not required to make a judicial finding of a significant factual basis for defendant's plea. Secondly, the court held that it was illogical to argue that the factual basis set forth by the state qualified as”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 954 So. 2d 806 - State v. Smith

3. “when a guilty plea is voluntary, there is no necessity to ascertain a factual basis for the plea unless the accused protests his innocence or for some other reason the trial court is put on notice that there is a need for such an inquiry.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 954 So. 2d 806 - State v. Smith