2000 Pa. Super. 32 - Commonwealth v. Townsend’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently July 2020
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 Chapman v. State of California · Commonwealth v. Pierce · Commonwealth v. Story · Comfort v. California · Klusman v. Bucks County Court of Common Pleas
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.
“42 Pa.C.S. Section 9712(a) requires a person convicted of a crime of violence be given a minimum sentence of at least five years, if the person visibly possessed a firearm that placed the victim in reasonable fear of death or serious bodily injury during the offense. Section 9712 applies when possession ‘manifests itself in the process of the crime.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Section 9712 applies when possession “manifests itself in the process of the crime.” ... “Visible possession” means the gun was seen by or had a visible effect on the victim.... A preponderance of the evidence makes subsection (a) applicable. 42 Pa.C.S. § 9712(b).”
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.