Commonwealth v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
16
cited by 16 later decisions
1
states following
April 1997
most recently cited
16 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Blair · Commonwealth v. Lamonna · Commonwealth v. Fiero · Commonwealth v. Mitchell · Commonwealth v. Waldman
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a defendant enters a guilty plea the only legally cognizable issues in a post conviction proceeding are those which affect either the voluntariness of the guilty plea or the legality of the sentence.”
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.