prosecutorial promise
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 404 U.S. 257 - Santobello v. New York · 1971Most cited · 10,455 citing opinions
plea bargain
when a plea rests in any significant degree on a promise or agreement of the prosecutor, so that it can be said to be part of the inducement or consideration, such promise must be fulfilled
How often courts cite the case defining “prosecutorial promise”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “prosecutorial promise” — 10,438 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.