2002 Pa. Super. 189 - Commonwealth v. Flick’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently June 2025
8 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Forbes · Commonwealth v. Randolph · Commonwealth v. McLaughlin · 451 Pa. Super. 500 - Commonwealth v. Luktisch · Commonwealth v. Gunter
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.
“[a] decision regarding whether to accept a defendant’s pre-sentence motion to withdraw a guilty plea is left to the discretion of the sentencing court. Pennsylvania Rule of Criminal Procedure 591 provides: At any time before the imposition of sentence, the court may, in its discretion, permit, upon motion of the defendant, or direct, sua sponte, the withdrawal of a plea of guilty or nolo contendere and the substitution of a plea of not guilty.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“since courts strive to discourage [the] entry of guilty pleas as sentence-testing devices.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.