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Standen v. Whitley’s Empirical Analysis

994 F.2d 1417 · 1993

Citation profile

18
cited by 18 later decisions
1
cited 1 times by the Supreme Court
February 2008
most recently cited

8 federal appellate ·

Relationships

Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Kotteakos v. United States · Brecht v. Abrahamson · Arizona v. Fulminante · Rose v. Clark

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

  1. “A plea of guilty differs in purpose and effect from a mere admission or an extrajudicial confession; it is itself a conviction. Like a verdict of a jury it is conclusive. . . . We think the weight of reason is against the introduction in evidence of a plea of guilty withdrawn.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “[a] fair trial cannot be had if the jury must weigh with all the other evidence, pro and con, the one overwhelming piece of evidence: the defendant pleaded guilty.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “meticulous review of the record becomes particularly significant”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

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.