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Cole v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2006

Citation profile

31
cited by 31 later decisions
1
states following
February 2018
most recently cited

31 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Strickland v. Washington · North Carolina v. Alford · 454 So. 2d 468 - Stringer v. State · 521 So. 2d 914 - Reynolds v. State · 585 So. 2d 765 - Corley 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “He must also show that the deficient conduct proximately resulted in his guilty plea, and but for counsel's errors, he would not have entered the plea.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “When a defendant enters into a guilty plea while maintaining his innocence, he has entered what is known as an Alford plea. . . .”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “[i]f the defendant has pled guilty, he must show unprofessional errors of substantial gravity.”
    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.