Commonwealth v. Cushnie’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently June 1980 · most notably Commonwealth v. Godfrey (1969), Commonwealth v. McBride (1970)
6 federal appellate · 62 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 New York Stock Exchange v. Legate · Commonwealth Ex Rel. West v. Rundle · Commonwealth ex rel. West v. Myers · Commonwealth Ex Rel. Barnosky v. Maroney · Commonwealth Ex Rel. Crosby v. Rundle
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A majority of criminal convictions are obtained after a plea of guilty. If these convictions are to be insulated from attack, the trial court is best advised to conduct an on the record examination of the defendant which should include, inter alia, an attempt to satisfy itself that the defendant understands the nature of the charges, his right to a jury trial, the acts sufficient to constitute the offenses for which he is charged and the permissible range of sentences.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“served at least to shift the burden of proof to the Commonwealth.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“understanding of the nature of the charges”
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.