Commonwealth v. Culbreath’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently December 2008 · most notably Commonwealth v. Starr (1973), Commonwealth v. Blevins (1973)
3 federal appellate · 36 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 Kercheval v. United States · Kadwell v. United States · Commonwealth v. Kravitz · Commonwealth v. Tabb · Commonwealth v. Burns
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“He first believed that the judge had agreed to a plea bargain for a two year sentence, but later realized that the judge was not informed of, and did not concur in, the bargain. This erroneous impression was conveyed to him by the fact that the trial judge met with counsel in chambers before he withdrew his plea of not guilty, by the assistant district attorney's recommendation of two years at the degree of guilt hearing, and by the representations of defense counsel.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“. . . accepting all of the evidence and all reasonable inferences therefrom, upon which, if believed, it would be nonetheless insufficient in law to find beyond a reasonable doubt that the appellee is guilty of the crime charged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“I begin by noting that this Court has never articulated the important distinction between pre-sentence and post-sentence plea withdrawals.”
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.