Commonwealth v. Quinones’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
4 district · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Commonwealth v. Lopez (1998), Commonwealth v. Comita (2004)
4 district · 39 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 Boykin v. Alabama · McCarthy v. United States · Parke v. Raley · Fussell v. Price · Opinions of the Justices to the House of Representatives
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f the record is unavailable, it may be reconstructed through testimony or other suitable proof of what happened in court when the guilty plea was taken.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“in taking and accepting pleas of guilty and his”
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.