Swilley v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2012
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
September 2018
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Tollett v. Henderson · 986 So. 2d 928 - Moore v. State · 738 So. 2d 240 - King v. State · Holloway v. State · Battaya 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] guilty plea represents a break in the chain of events which has preceded it in the criminal process. When a criminal defendant has solemnly admitted in open court that he is in fact guilty of the offense with which he is charged, he many not thereafter raise independent claims relating to the deprivation of his constitutional rights that occurred prior to the entry of the guilty plea.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“prohibits a prisoner from raising certain issues in a PCR motion if they should have been raised prior to filing a PCR motion, and failure to raise these issues acts as a waiver.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A valid guilty plea waives the defendant's right to make certain constitutional challenges ....”
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.