Commonwealth v. Kirsch’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
February 2017
most recently cited
11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Forbes · Commonwealth v. Brady · Commonwealth v. Randolph · 387 Pa. Super. 328 - Commonwealth v. Cole · Alderson v. Nationwide Mut. Ins. Co.
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[ Prejudice would require a showing that due to events occurring after the plea was entered, the Commonwealth is placed in a worse position than it would have been had trial taken place as scheduled. This follows from the fact that the consequence of granting the motion is to put the parties back in the pre-trial stage of proceedings. This further follows from the logical proposition that prejudice cannot be equated with the Commonwealth being made to do something it was already obligated to do prior to the entry of the plea.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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