Commonwealth v. Ryan’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
August 1990
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Lawson · Commonwealth v. Anthony · 379 Pa. Super. 626 - Purcell v. Bryn Mawr Hospital
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A guilty plea is an acknowledgement by a defendant that he participated in the commission of certain acts with a criminal intent; he acknowledges the existence of facts and intent; facts he acknowledges may or may not be within the powers of the Commonwealth to prove.”
2 later decisions 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.