Commonwealth v. Forbes’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 196 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 205 later decisions — most recently June 2021 · most notably Commonwealth v. Starr (1973), Commonwealth v. Shaffer (1982)
6 federal appellate · 196 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 · MacHibroda v. United States · Kercheval v. United States · United States v. Stayton
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 205 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"the test to be applied by the trial courts is fairness and justice." United States v. Stayton, [ 408 F.2d 559, 561 (3d Cir. 1969) ]. If the trial court finds "any fair and just reason," withdrawal of the plea before sentence should be freely permitted, unless the prosecution has been "substantially prejudiced."”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage“what plea to enter is a decision which must be made voluntarily and intelligently, by the accused.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“I don't want to plead guilty to nothing I didn't do.”
2 later decisions 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.