Commonwealth v. Scoleri’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently December 1988 · most notably Commonwealth v. Starr (1973), Commonwealth v. Potter (1978)
11 federal appellate · 52 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 Fay v. Noia · Ball v. United States · Hamilton v. Alabama · White v. State of Maryland · Gori v. United States
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The fact that in the finding of the Court as to the degree of defendant's guilt and the sentence imposed, the expectations or hopes of appellant and her counsel were not realized is not the kind of `mistake or misapprehension' which in the interest of Justice, justifies the withdrawal of a plea of guilty.”
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.