263 Pa. Super. 220 - Commonwealth v. Maute’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably Georgevich v. Strauss (1985), Burkett v. Love (1996)
5 federal appellate · 30 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 McMann v. Richardson · Commonwealth v. Dancer · Commonwealth v. Sullivan · Commonwealth v. Starr · 237 Pa. Super. 336 - Commonwealth v. Roberts
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In order to attack his guilty plea on the grounds it was based on an unlawfully obtained confession, appellant must prove all of the following: (1) the confession was in fact unlawfully obtained; (2) the confession was the prime motivation of the guilty plea; and (3) the guilty plea was entered on the incompetent advice of counsel. Commonwealth v. Williams, 456 Pa. 377 , 321 A.2d 608 (1974); Commonwealth v. Butler, 454 Pa. 95 , 309 A.2d 720 (1973); Commonwealth v. Marsh, 440 Pa. 590 , 271 A.2d 481 (1970); Commonwealth v. Reiland, 241 Pa.Super. 109 , 359 A.2d 811 (1976); cf. McMann v. Richardson, 397 U.S. 759 , 90 S.Ct. 1441 , 25 L.Ed.2d 763 (1970).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“judicial economy is best promoted by dispensing of the two issues in one unified proceeding.”
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.