Commonwealth v. Lee’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
122 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 122 later decisions — most recently April 2012 · most notably Commonwealth v. Shaffer (1982), 237 Pa. Super. 336 - Commonwealth v. Roberts (1975)
122 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 · Commonwealth v. Ingram · Commonwealth Ex Rel. West v. Rundle · Commonwealth v. Starr · Commonwealth v. Alvarado
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 122 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[w]here the only challenge to the proceedings in the trial court is directed to the validity of the guilty plea itself, the proper procedure is to first file with that court a petition to withdraw the plea.” Commonwealth v. Lee, 460 Pa. 324, 327 , 333 A.2d 749, 750 (1975) (Emphasis added).”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.