Ray v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

13 state decisions

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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “does not require, either in felonies or misdemeanors, that the defendant entering an open plea of guilty or nolo contendere be informed prior to his plea of the possible consequences under Sec. 5(b) of a probation violation [and] [t]herefore the failure to provide the information does not render such a plea involuntary.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Joyner v. State · Marin v. State

2. “The Court of Appeals erred in holding that the failure of the trial judge to admonish Appellant of the consequences of violation of his deferred adjudication probation did not retroactively render Appellant's guilty plea involuntary.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Joyner v. State

3. “orally or in writing of the possible consequences under Subsection (b) of this section of a violation of community supervision.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Joyner v. State