Commonwealth v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably Commonwealth v. Briggs (2011), Commonwealth v. Eisenberg, M., Aplt (2014)
59 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 Commonwealth v. Grant · Commonwealth v. Mockaitis · Commonwealth v. Little · Commonwealth v. Bethea · Commonwealth v. Revtai
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A plea of guilty constitutes a waiver of all nonjurisdictional defects and defenses. When a defendant pleads guilty, he waives the right to challenge anything but the legality of his sentence and the validity of his plea.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[There are] two requirements for subject matter jurisdiction as it relates to criminal defendants: the competency of the court to hear the case, and the provision of formal notice to the defendant of the crimes charged in compliance with the Sixth Amendment of the United States Constitution and Article I, Section 9, of the Pennsylvania Constitution.” Commonwealth v. Jones, 593 Pa. 295 , 929 A.2d 205, 210 (2007).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“relates to the competency of the individual court, administrative body, or other tribunal to determine controversies of the general class to which a particular case belongs.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.