Lewis v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently January 2019
13 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 SCARNATO v. LaVALLEE, WARDEN · King v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Watkins · Maye v. Commonwealth · Warner v. Commonwealth
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Upon motion of the defendant, and the defendant announcing to the Court in open court that he wished to have an immediate trial. Then came the defendant accompanied by his attorney, W. R. Tapp, and the Commonwealth by its attorney and both parties announced ready for trial. The defendant waived a trial by jury and submitted himself to trial by the Court, and on advice of counsel, and the defendant personally entered a plea of guilty to the charge of Grand Larceny, as set out in the indictment. Thereupon the Court by inquiry of the defendant determined that he thoroughly understood the nature and consequences of his waiver and inquired of the defendant if any promises or representations of any nature had been made to him by anyone whatsoever to influence him to enter said plea of guilty to which inquiry the defendant personally answered in open court that there had not been. Thereupon the Court accepted the guilty plea made personally by the defendant and upon recommendation of the Commonwealth Attorney now fixes the punishment of the defendant at confinement in the Kentucky State Penitentiary at Eddyville, Kentucky for a period of three (3) years. Came Defendant by Attorney and filed a Motion for Probation and the hearing On the Motion for Probation is ordered set for the third Saturday of the present term. The defendant was then remanded to the custody of the Jailer of Hopkins County.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Ford v. Commonwealth“whether the motion on its face states grounds that are not conclusively refuted by the record and which, if true, would invalidate the conviction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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