365 Pa. Super. 562 - Commonwealth v. Coles’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably 436 Pa. Super. 391 - Commonwealth v. Dalberto (1994), 446 Pa. Super. 240 - Commonwealth v. Nelson (1995)
48 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 ex rel. Kerekes v. Maroney · Commonwealth v. Alvarado · Commonwealth v. Knight · Commonwealth v. Moyer
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f either party to a negotiated plea agreement believed the other side could, at any time following entry of sentence, approach the judge and have the sentence unilaterally altered, neither the Commonwealth nor any defendant would be willing to enter into such an agreement.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“To hold otherwise would make a sham of the negotiated plea process and would give the defendant a second bite at his sentence, which we have frequently deplored in the context of withdrawal of a guilty plea.”
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.