State v. Sledge’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
90 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably State v. Walsh (2001), State v. Ramos (2017)
90 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 Santobello v. New York · Mabry v. Johnson · Johnson v. Railway Express Agency, Inc. · 111 S. Ct. 425 - Insurance Co. of Pennsylvania v. Ben Cooper, Inc. · Mabry v. Johnson
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Due process requires a prosecutor to adhere to the terms of the agreement.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) both prosecutors [here] unnecessarily commented on a written presentence report that was already before the court; (2) the prosecutors underscored aggravating factors; and (3) the prosecutors maintained that the State was adhering to its plea agreement but clearly behaved otherwise. The court in Sledge found the actions of the prosecutor to be a transparent attempt to sustain an exceptional sentence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“A fair reading of the State's direct examination of [witnesses] and negative summation reveals the State's unmistakable advocacy for an exceptional sentence. Even though the State told the trial court it was recommending a standard range sentence, it violated its duty of good faith and fair dealing by undercutting the recommendation, and thereby breached the plea agreement.”
2 later decisions 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.