State v. Driver’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
115 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 115 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably State v. Morrow (1998), State v. Mayes (2001)
115 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 United States v. Cronic · Hagan v. State · State v. Lang · State v. Starks · State v. Van Nguyen
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 115 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As a consequence of the thoroughness of the questioning conducted in most guilty plea proceedings, significant numbers of Rule 24.035 motions are appropriately overruled without evidentiary hearing because the inquiry conducted by the trial court upon taking the guilty plea elicits responses that conclusively refute allegations in a later filed Rule 24.035 motion.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Jones v. State · Summers v. State“Q: At this time I want to ask you if you have any complaints against your attorney, the Public Defender’s office in this case? A: No, sir. Q: You think they did you a good job? A: Yes, I do. Q: Did they do anything that you didn’t want them to do? A: No. Q: Did they do everything you wanted them to do? A: Yes, sir.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Jones v. State · May v. State“must be specific enough to elicit responses from which the motion court may determine that the record refutes conclusively the allegation of ineffectiveness asserted in the [post-conviction] motion.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Jones v. State · May 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.