State v. Kovack’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 127 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 132 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably State v. Vasquez (1992), State v. Howard (1988)
3 federal appellate · 127 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 Santobello v. New York · Teamsters Local Union 657 v. Rodriguez · Adams v. Texas · State v. Maguire · State v. Burstein
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 132 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... the court must make certain that defendant has been made aware of any loss of parole opportunities that may be a component of the sentence.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[o]bviously, this is best accomplished by the court satisfying itself, through specific question and answer, that defendant understands the possibility that a stated period of parole ineligibility can be made part of the sentence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Sentencing remains a judicial function, and a sentencing court, notwithstanding the agreement of the parties, may refuse to accept any of the terms and conditions of a plea agreement.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.