St. Clair v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
August 2019
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Houser v. State · Tumulty v. State · Collins v. State · State ex rel. Goldsmith v. Marion County Superior Court, Criminal Division No. 1 · Reffett v. State
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the court accepts a plea agreement, it shall be bound by its terms.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Bargaining between the State and a pleading defendant will have produced for court consideration an agreement that either specifies a precise penalty or leaves some or all of the specifics to the judgment of the trial court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“once a sentencing court accepts a plea agreement, it possesses only that degree of sentencing discretion provided in the agreement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.