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← 180 A3D 786 - Commonwealth v. Lewis

Commonwealth v. Lewis’s Empirical Analysis

2018

Citation profile

12
cited by 12 later decisions
2
states following
January 2025
most recently cited

12 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Koken v. Reliance Insurance · 424 Pa. Super. 89 - Bankers Trust Co. v. Foust · 2008 Pa. Super. 235 - Commonwealth v. Morris · 2005 Pa. Super. 24 - Commonwealth v. Wall · 2016 Pa. Super. 197 - Commonwealth v. Carontenuto

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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “A person may not be charged and shall be immune from prosecution for any offense listed in subsection (b) and for a violation of probation or parole if the person can establish the following:”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “[m]ore than 63,600 lives were lost to drug overdose in 2016, the most lethal year yet of the drug overdose epidemic, according to ... the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.”
    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.