Commonwealth v. Meyer’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently July 2017 · most notably 433 Pa. Super. 111 - Commonwealth v. Quinlan (1994), Commonwealth v. Allen (1971)
3 federal appellate · 39 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 Hill v. United States ex rel. Wampler · 130 Pa. Super. 536 - Com. Ex Rel. Paige v. Smith, Warden · Com. ex rel. Wilhelm v. Morgan · Commonwealth v. Silcox · Maguire v. Wheeler
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The court clearly had the power to correct the clerical errors in the docket entry of the oral order of the court, suspending sentence and placing the defendant on probation. If an entry upon the records of the court is inaccurate it will be corrected when called to the court’s attention “to the end that it may speak the truth.” Hill v. United States ex rel. Wampler, 298 U.S. 460 , 56 S.Ct. 760, 762 , 80 L.Ed. 1283 . The law of this State conforms with the general rule that such clerical errors may be corrected by amendment even in a criminal case, Sharff v. Commonwealth, 2 Bin. 513 ; the order in the instant case, which merely made the record conform to the facts, clearly was a proper exercise of the power of the court. Commonwealth v. Silcox, 161 Pa. 484, 496 , 29 A. 105 . Instantly, as in Meyer , the clerk had entered an erroneous”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The period of probation under the Act cannot exceed the maximum for which a defendant might have been imprisoned. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a judgment until made productive by payment is but security for the acknowledged debt”
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.