Commonwealth v. Hayes’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently September 1996 · most notably 296 Pa. Super. 441 - Commonwealth v. Miranda (1982), 355 Pa. Super. 123 - Commonwealth v. Johnson (1986)
42 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 Douglas v. People of State of California · Commonwealth v. Dancer · Commonwealth v. Forbes · Commonwealth v. Starr · Commonwealth v. Walters
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“2.1 Plea withdrawal.... (b) ... Before sentence, the court in its discretion may allow the defendant to withdraw his plea for any fair and just reason unless the prosecution has been substantially prejudiced by reliance upon the defendant's plea.”
2 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.