Woodly v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

19 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “In [the defendant’s] presence, the prosecutor stated that the potential penalty was up to life imprisonment on each count. The court confirmed that the life sentence was discretionary and not mandatory. Further, through its questioning, the trial court confirmed that no one, including [the defendant’s] attorney, had told [the defendant] anything different than what the court was informing him about his sentence. The trial court informed [the defendant] that if he proceeded to trial he was facing up to life imprisonment with a ten-year minimum mandatory on each count in the information pursuant to the 10-20-Life provision of the Florida Statutes. Based upon the transcript, [the defendant] was well aware that he was not facing a mandatory life sentence on the charges to which he pled guilty.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 143 So. 3d 1160 - Liston T. Gumbs, Jr. v. State

2. “Where a defendant files a facially sufficient motion to withdraw his plea, he is entitled to an evidentiary hearing on the issue unless the record conclusively refutes his allegations.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Schriber v. State

3. “The standard of review of a trial court's denial of a motion to withdraw plea is abuse of discretion.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Schriber v. State