Commonwealth v. Bunch’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently June 1991 · most notably 162 W. Va. 212 - State v. Sims (1978), Commonwealth v. Powell (1991)
59 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. Dancer · Commonwealth v. Hamilton · Commonwealth v. Starr · Commonwealth v. Little · Commonwealth v. Cronin
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Petitions to withdraw guilty pleas should be timely filed, but are not necessarily untimely because made after judgment or sentence. The test of timeliness is “due diligence, considering the nature of the allegations therein.” See ABA Standards, Pleas of Guilty § 2.1 (1968). Commonwealth v. Bunch, 466 Pa. 22, 28 , 351 A.2d 284 , 286-87 n. 6 (1976).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““We have in the past repeatedly held that the only grounds for appeal following a guilty plea which has resulted in a judgment of murder in the second degree are the voluntariness of the plea and the legality of the sentence (including in the latter category the jurisdiction of the sentencing court).” [Pa. 351 A.2d at 286 ]”
1 later decision 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.