Commonwealth v. Guldin’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably Commonwealth v. Dunbar (1983), Commonwealth v. Hill (1999)
28 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 Klopfer v. State of North Carolina · Commonwealth Ex Rel. Washington v. Maroney · Commonwealth v. Shelton · Commonwealth v. Myrick · Commonwealth v. Musi
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Rule 1100 was never intended to be used as a device by which a defendant may escape responsibility for his actions, especially where such defendant makes a representation through his attorney that it is not in his best interests to proceed to trial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(d) In determining the period for commencement of trial, there shall be excluded therefrom such period of delay at any stage of the proceedings as results from: (1) the unavailability of the defendant or his attorney;”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(a) Trial in a court case in which a written complaint is filed against the defendant after June 30, 1974 shall commence no later than one hundred eighty (180) days from the date on which the complaint is filed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.