People v. Padilla’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently February 2025
18 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 924
Relies on Williams v. People of State of New York · McMillan v. Pennsylvania · Custis v. United States · United States v. Addonizio · Parke v. Raley
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.
“to heightened procedural safeguards against infringement of their due process rights through the use of potentially invalid prior convictions.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brown v. Neal · Brown v. Story“A defendant at a sentencing hearing has already been found guilty of the crime for which punishment is to be imposed, and therefore, the defendant's due process rights are correspondingly limited.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Fritts“After receiving the [PSIR] and before imposing sentence, the court shall afford the defendant an opportunity to make a statement in his or her own behalf.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Fritts
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.