State v. Scott

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding that the State was \obliged to act in good faith and adhere to the bargain it had struck with Scott\
• concluding that the State was \obliged to act in good faith and adhere to the bargain it had struck with Scott\
• explaining that plea bargains are subject to contract law principles, including the duty of good faith and fair dealing
• discussing the general applicability of contract law analogies to plea agreements
• “Prosecutors are agents of the State, and it is the State rather than the individual prosecutor [that] is bound by the agreement.”
• “[T]he State was obliged to act in good faith and adhere to the bargain it had struck with [the defendant]. After the contract had been negotiated and [the defendant’s] no contest pleas entered, neither party had the right to renege on the agreement.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Cole v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2005-10-20· cited 21×
• State v. Baker
  Ohio Court of Appeals· 2018-09-28· cited 4×
• State v. Bloom
  Court of Appeals of Wisconsin· 2004-04-07
• State of Iowa v. Chance Ryan Beres
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2020-05-15
• State v. Smith
  Court of Appeals of Wisconsin· 2018-09-20
• State v. Steven E. Rippentrop
  Court of Appeals of Wisconsin· 2023-02-23

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Santobello v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1971-12-20· cited 5,257×
• Mabry v. Johnson
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-11· cited 1,007×
• State v. MacHner
  Wisconsin Supreme Court· 1979-10-12· cited 793×
• State v. Pitsch
  Wisconsin Supreme Court· 1985-06-28· cited 288×
• United States v. Frank E. Ready
  Second Circuit· 1996-05-02· cited 192×
• United States v. Donald Berry Burns, United States of America v. Joseph L. Laforney
  Fourth Circuit· 1993-03-19· cited 182×
• Winford L. Stokes, Jr. v. William M. Armontrout, William L. Webster
  Eighth Circuit· 1988-09-09· cited 71×
• State v. Rivest
  Wisconsin Supreme Court· 1982-03-02· cited 48×
• Edlin v. Soderstrom
  Wisconsin Supreme Court· 1978-04-05· cited 37×
• Aldens, Inc. v. LaFollette
  Seventh Circuit· 1977-03-25· cited 28×
• State v. Haskins
  Court of Appeals of Wisconsin· 1987-04-15· cited 22×
• State v. Beckes
  Court of Appeals of Wisconsin· 1980-11-24· cited 18×
• State v. Wills
  Court of Appeals of Wisconsin· 1994-09-15· cited 13×
• United States v. Heatley
  S.D. New York· 1998-11-12· cited 13×