Sweetwine v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• refusing to allow defendant to repudiate plea agreement while retaining the benefits of that agreement
• “If the prosecutor cannot rely upon the plea bargain, the potential ‘chilling effect’ upon the very institution of plea bargaining could be devastating.”
• “[T]he whole package of reciprocal arrangements and obligations is conditional. The condition is the continuing health of the guilty plea. If it is voided, both the defendant and the state return to ‘square one.’ ” (Footnote omitted.)
• “[T]he whole package of reciprocal arrangements and obligations is conditional. The condition is the continuing health of the guilty plea. If it is voided, both the defendant and the state return to ‘square one.’ ” (Footnote omitted.)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

23 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Myers v. Frazier
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1984-06-27· cited 83×
• Sweetwine v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1980-08-12· cited 60×
• Dotson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1991-01-07· cited 36×
• State of Iowa v. Joseph D. Ceretti
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2015-10-23· cited 36×
• Banks v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1983-10-14· cited 34×
• Rojas v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1982-09-10· cited 32×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1986-05-13· cited 22×
• Staael v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1985-04-12· cited 21×
• Sharp v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2016-03-25· cited 13×
• Bonilla v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2015-05-22· cited 8×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2017-06-22· cited 7×
• Poole v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1988-11-03· cited 7×
• Ellison v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1983-12-12· cited 6×
• State v. Chertkov
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1993-05-13· cited 5×
• State v. Smith
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2016-09-29· cited 5×
• Ray v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2016-09-29· cited 5×
• Timothy Willie Sweetwine v. State of Maryland and the Warden of the Maryland House of Correction
  Fourth Circuit· 1985-08-08· cited 3×
• Falero v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2013-06-28· cited 3×
• Sheffield v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2006-08-25· cited 2×
• People v. Miller
  New York Court of Appeals· 1985-07-11· cited 2×