95 Wash. 2d 799 - State v. Wheeler’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently March 2013 · most notably State v. Manussier (1996), 100 Wash. 2d 757 - State v. Davenport (1984)
46 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 Chapman v. State of California · Bruton v. United States · Rochin v. People of California · Harrington v. California · Snyder v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he weight of authority is that, absent some detrimental reliance by the defendant, the State may withdraw from any plea agreement prior to the actual entry of a guilty plea.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[Ajbsent a guilty plea or some other detrimental reliance by the defendant, the prosecutor may revoke any plea proposal. Since the defendant has alleged only "psychological" reliance on the prosecutor's offer, and without a showing that the prosecutor has abused its discretion by routinely rescinding its offers, the trial court correctly declined to enforce it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a] defendant does not have a constitutional right to plea bargain, see Weatherford v. Bursey, 429 U.S. 545 , 97 S.Ct. 837 , 51 L.Ed.2d 30 (1977), and thus the failure to enforce a plea proposal, as opposed to an `accepted' offer, cannot violate substantive due process.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Yates
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.