Higgason v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
984 F.2d 203 · 1993
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently September 2023 · most notably State v. Edgar (2006), 10 Cal. 4th 1170 - People v. Hoffard (1995)
27 federal appellate · 7 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Boykin v. Alabama · North Carolina v. Alford · Wainwright v. Sykes · Rose v. Lundy · McCarthy v. United States
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[o]n collateral attack, a silent record supports the judgment; the state receives the benefit of a presumption of regularity and all reasonable inferences.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“'where it is impossible to find guilt from the facts stated as the factual basis for the plea' the court is apt to find the plea involuntary.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Whether a choice is informed and reached without inappropriate pressure — that is, whether it is voluntary — depends on the information known and options open to the defendant, including what he has learned out of court.”); United States v. Fountain, 777 F.2d 351, 357 (7th Cir.1985), cert. denied, 475 U.S. 1029 , 106 S.Ct. 1232 , 89 L.Ed.2d 341 (1986) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Herndon
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.