Commonwealth v. Pingaro’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
2 district · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Commonwealth v. Lopez (1998), Commonwealth v. Furr (2009)
2 district · 37 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 · Parke v. Raley · Dwyer v. Globe Newspaper Co. · Central Railroad v. Pennsylvania · Commonwealth v. Grace
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an abuse of discretion that produces a manifestly unjust result.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“The credibility, weight, and impact of the affidavits in support of the motion are entirely within the judge's discretion”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““A defendant’s naked claim that he did not receive a constitutionally adequate guilty plea colloquy does not automatically thrust upon the Commonwealth the burden of proving the existence of a contemporaneous record establishing that the plea was entered knowingly and voluntarily. Rather, the initial burden is on the moving defendant to present some articulable reason which the motion judge deems a credible indicator that the presumptively proper guilty plea proceedings were constitutionally defective, above and beyond a movant’s ‘credulity straining’ contentions regarding ‘questions the judge did not ask’ almost sixteen years earlier, Commonwealth v. Duest, 30 Mass. App. Ct. 623, 627 (1991) . . . and reliance upon the mere nonexistence of a transcript of the plea proceedings.””
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.