319 Pa. Super. 170 - Commonwealth v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently December 2008 · most notably 344 Pa. Super. 108 - Commonwealth v. Williams (1985), 387 Pa. Super. 328 - Commonwealth v. Cole (1989)
37 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 Ex Rel. Washington v. Maroney · Commonwealth Ex Rel. Moszczynski v. Ashe · Commonwealth v. Walker · 290 Pa. Super. 182 - Commonwealth v. Barnhart · 242 Pa. Super. 240 - Commonwealth v. Brown
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A criminal defendant who elects to plead guilty has a duty to answer questions truthfully. We can not permit a defendant to postpone the final disposition of his case by lying to the court and later alleging that his lies were induced by the prompting of counsel.”
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.