Saffold v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably Krider v. State (2001), Boyd v. State (2006)
25 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · North Carolina v. Alford · State v. Taylor · State v. Hunter · State v. Roll
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Some of the stated purposes of Rule 24.02 are that a defendant understand the specific charges against him, that he understand the maximum penalty confronting him, and that he recognize that he has waived specific legal'rights by pleading guilty. A plea forms the factual basis for a guilty plea where it is voluntarily and understanding^ made, as well as unequivocal as to the factual requisites necessary to establish every element of the offense. A plea of guilty is looked upon as an admission to the facts that are alleged in the charging instrument. A defendant need not expressly admit guilt before the court can make a determination as to the factual basis of a plea. The defendant need not admit to or even believe the truth of the charges; it is required only that the plea be made knowingly and voluntarily. It is not required that every element of the crime be explained so long as the defendant understands the nature of the charge. “When an accused admits in open court facts which constitute the offense for which he is charged, he cannot thereafter withdraw his plea on the assertion that he did not understand the nature of the charge to which he plead [sic] guilty.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Calvin v. State“By pleading guilty, a defendant waives all errors except for those affecting the voluntariness or understanding with which the plea was made.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Treta v. State
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.