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← 901 N.E.2d 490 - St. Clair v. State

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.

  1. “If the court accepts a plea agreement, it shall be bound by its terms.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “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
  3. “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.