State v. Doe’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably State v. Muniz (2003), State v. Doe (1979)
30 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 North Carolina v. Alford · Howell Ex Rel. Howell v. Burk · Melon v. State · State v. Leyba · Wayne Woodard v. Louis L. Wainwright, Eddie Bell v. Louis L. Wainwright, Secretary of Department of Offender Rehabilitation
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]fter a petition has been filed alleging a delinquent act, the court may, before hearing the petition on its merits, transfer the matter for prosecution in the district court if: (1) the child was fifteen years of age or more at the time of the * * * alleged * * * delinquent act, and the alleged delinquent act is murder * * * or when the child was sixteen years of age or more and the alleged act is assault with intent to commit a violent felony * * * or kidnapping * * * or a felony criminal sexual penetration * * * or robbery * * * or aggravated burglary * * * or aggravated arson * * * (2) a hearing on whether the transfer shall be made is held * * * (3) notice in writing * * * of the hearing is given * * * (4) the court has considered whether the child is amenable to treatment or rehabilitation as a child through available facilities; and (5) the court makes a specific finding upon the hearing that there are reasonable grounds to believe that the child committed the alleged delinquent act. [Emphasis supplied.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Doe“Whatever defendant’s rights may be in offering to plead, a court is not required to “accept every constitutionally valid guilty plea merely because a defendant wishes so to plead. A criminal defendant does not have an absolute right under the Constitution to have his guilty plea accepted.... ” North Carolina v. Alford, 400 U.S. 25 , 91 S.Ct. 160 , 27 L.Ed.2d 162 (1970), footnote 11. Similarly, a child does not have a constitutional right to have his admission accepted and thus prevent being transferred to district court for criminal proceedings. The right to be treated as a child is a statutory, not a constitutional, right. Having provided that certain children could be prosecuted criminally, the Legislature did not intend that such a prosecution, initiated by the motion to transfer, could be terminated by the child’s offer to admit the allegations of the Children’s Court petition, a non-criminal matter.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McAdams v. State
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.