Commonwealth v. Anthony’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 105 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 113 later decisions — most recently October 2013 · most notably 454 Pa. Super. 428 - Commonwealth v. Yager (1996), Commonwealth v. Robinson (2004)
6 federal appellate · 105 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. Hubbard · Commonwealth v. Forbes · Commonwealth v. Williams · 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 113 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he court must determine whether there is a factual basis for the plea ... to prevent a plea where in fact the legal requirements have not been met.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Heiser v. Ryan · DiJoseph v. Vuotto
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.