Kidd v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

23 state decisions

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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““In other words, the law does not seem to forbid’ an appeal to the circuit court by the defendant where' his conviction in the court of inferior jurisdiction resulted from a plea of ‘guilty.’ “Assuming the law to be as stated, and the appellant, by reason of the appeal, to be entitled to a trial de‘ novo of her case in the circuit court, that court should have sustained her motion to withdraw the plea of guilty which had been made in the justice’s court, and allowed her to enter the plea of ‘not guilty;’ for her right to enter that plea might have been exercised at any time during her trial in the circuit court and before judgment, even had she first entered in that court a plea of guilty; but in the latter case it would have been necessary to first withdraw the plea of guilty.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Williams v. Commonwealth

2. “"At any time before judgment the court may permit the plea of guilty to be withdrawn and a plea of not guilty substituted.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Reed v. Commonwealth