Commonwealth v. Yorgey’s Empirical Analysis
2018
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
March 2025
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Anders v. California · McCoy v. Court of Appeals of Wisconsin, District 1 · Commonwealth v. McClendon · Commonwealth v. Baker · Commonwealth v. Whack
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Furthermore, after conducting a full examination of all the proceedings as required pursuant to Anders , we discern no non-frivolous issues to be raised on appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“a full examination of all the proceedings, to decide whether the case is wholly frivolous.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.