Commonwealth v. Tighe’s Empirical Analysis
2018
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
December 2025
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Crawford v. Washington · Faretta v. California · McKaskle v. Wiggins · Maryland v. Craig · Coy v. Iowa
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Butler applied Commonwealth v. Muniz , 640 Pa. 699 , 164 A.3d 1189 (2017), which held that the sexual offender requirements under the Sexual Offender Registration and Notification Act, including its SVP framework, constitute punishment. Butler determined that, as a result of Muniz , the SVP procedure is subject to the constitutional requirement that the facts constituting that punishment must be found by a fact-finder beyond a reasonable doubt. Thus, 42 Pa.C.S. § 9799.24(e)(3), which requires the trial court to find the relevant facts by clear and convincing evidence, was deemed unconstitutional. Id. at 1218 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
How this case has been treated — in progress
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