451 Pa. Super. 514 - Commonwealth v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently May 2017
12 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 Commonwealth v. Duffey · Commonwealth v. Frometa · Commonwealth v. Persinger · Parry Bh-2648 v. Rosemeyer · Commonwealth v. Carter
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he appellate courts of the Commonwealth consistently have ruled that a defendant’s lack of knowledge of collateral consequences to the entry of a guilty plea does not render a plea unknowing or involuntary. Commonwealth v. Frometa, 520 Pa. 552 , 555 A.2d 92 (1989) (plea valid even though defendant not informed he would face deportation as a result of plea); Pennsylvania Department of Transportation v. Johnson, 434 Pa.Super. 1 , 641 A.2d 1170 (1994) (guilty plea to various drug charges could not be withdrawn based on fact defendant was not told that his driver’s license would be suspended for ninety days due to entry of plea); see also Commonwealth v. Duffey, 536 Pa. 436 , 639 A.2d 1174 (1994).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Probation revocation proceedings in an unrelated criminal action do not involve sentencing consequences of pleading guilty in the action at issue. Thus, we hold that the possibility of probation revocation is a collateral consequence to a guilty plea, and the fact that a defendant was not informed that he faces such a possibility in an unrelated criminal case does not undermine the validity of the plea.”
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.