Commonwealth v. Chumley’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Commonwealth v. Weinstein (1982), 454 Pa. Super. 428 - Commonwealth v. Yager (1996)
60 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 Aguilar v. Texas · North Carolina v. Alford · Spinelli v. United States · Brady v. United States · McCarthy v. United States
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Upon entry of a plea of guilty, all grounds of appeal are waived other than challenges to the voluntariness of the plea and the jurisdiction of the sentencing court.” Commonwealth v. Greer, 457 Pa. 646 , 326 A.2d 338 (1974). Accord, Commonwealth v. Chumley, 482 Pa. 626, 639-40 , 394 A.2d 497, 504 (1978), cert. denied 440 U.S. 966 , 99 S.Ct. 1515 , 59 L.Ed.2d 781 (1979).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“specific intent to inflict great bodily injury”
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.