125 Pa. Super. 407 - Commonwealth v. Sutton’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently September 2012 · most notably 135 W. Va. 90 - Dye v. Skeen (1950), Commonwealth v. Dickerson (1993)
36 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 People v. Gowasky · Commonwealth v. Minnich · Commonwealth v. McDermott · Rauch v. Commonwealth · Morgan 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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A person who, after having been three times convicted, within or without this commonwealth, of crimes of the character above set forth, or of attempt to commit any such crimes, shall, upon conviction of any such crimes for a fourth or subsequent offense committed within five years after the prior offense, be sentenced, in the discretion of the judge trying the case, to imprisonment in a State Penitentiary for the term of his natural life.””
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.