Commonwealth v. Morales’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
August 1988
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Boykin v. Alabama · Commonwealth v. Cushnie · Commonwealth v. Jones · Commonwealth v. Enty · Commonwealth v. English
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[a] guilty plea constitutes a waiver of constitutional rights, and if one does not understand those rights or the consequences of waiving those rights, the plea cannot stand."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commonwealth v. Ward
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.