guilty plea
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 400 U.S. 25 - North Carolina v. Alford · 1970Most cited · 14,267 citing opinions
validity standard
The standard was and remains whether the plea represents a voluntary and intelligent choice among the alternative courses of action open to the defendant.
How often courts cite the case defining “guilty plea”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “guilty plea” — 14,253 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.