Roberts v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently February 2017
8 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 United States v. Robertson · United States v. Arroyo-Angulo · United States v. Grant · United States v. Serna · Workman v. Commonwealth
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]ny statement made in the course of plea discussions with an attorney for the prosecuting authority which do not result in a plea of guilty or which result in a plea of guilty later withdrawn.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“1. Whether the accused exhibited an actual subjective expectation to negotiate a plea at the time of the discussion AND 2. Whether the accused’s expectation was reasonable given the totality of the objective circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]here was a quid pro quo. Each side made a concession. This was clearly a `plea discussion.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Richardson v. State
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.