1999 Pa. Super. 20 - Commonwealth v. Medley’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently February 2023
8 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 Williams v. People of State of New York · McMillan v. Pennsylvania · Gardner v. Florida · Commonwealth v. Tuladziecki · Office of Disciplinary Counsel v. Raiford
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In Commonwealth v. Archer, 722 A.2d 203 (Pa.Super.1998) [ (era banc) ], we stated, “... any misapplication of the Sentencing Guidelines constitutes a challenge to the discretionary aspects of sentence. A claim that the sentencing court misapplied the Guidelines presents a substantial question.” Archer, 722 A.2d at 211 , overruling Commonwealth v. Johnson, 421 Pa.Super. 433 , 618 A.2d 415, 418-419 (1992) and Commonwealth v. Palmer, 700 A.2d 988, 995 (Pa.Super.1997). Thus, Appellant’s claim that the lower court erred when calculating his prior record score presents a substantial question that the lower court abused its discretion at the time of sentencing. Compare Archer, supra (allegation that lower court miscalculated offense gravity score presents a “legal question,” not appealable as of right, but appealable because it raises a substantial question regarding the discretionary aspects of sentence).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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