248 Pa. Super. 496 - Commonwealth v. Bable’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently October 2003
18 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. Ingram · Commonwealth Ex Rel. West v. Rundle · Commonwealth v. Graves · Commonwealth v. Wideman · Commonwealth v. Roundtree
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We think it is logical and correct that if a defendant pleads guilty to a criminal charge, and then in the next breath contravenes the plea by asserting facts which, if true, would establish that he is not guilty, then his guilty plea is of no effect and should be rejected. For on its face, such a situation would show that the plea was not entered with a complete comprehension of its impact.... In other words, a defendant should not be allowed to plead ‘guilty’ from one side of his mouth and ‘not guilt/ from the other.””
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.