Commonwealth v. Martinez’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently June 2005 · most notably 454 Pa. Super. 428 - Commonwealth v. Yager (1996), Commonwealth v. Flanagan (2004)
41 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 Henderson v. Morgan · Commonwealth v. Ingram · Commonwealth Ex Rel. West v. Rundle · Commonwealth v. Starr · Commonwealth v. Shaffer
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In a case where ample, competent evidence in support of a guilty plea is made a magger of record, allegations of manifest injustice arising from the guilty plea must go beyond a mere claim of lack of technical recitation of the legal elements of crimes”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the elements of the crimes or explanation of malice as an element of murder of the third degree”
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.