2000 Pa. Super. 359 - Commonwealth v. Lebron’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 282 Pa. Super. 431 - Commonwealth v. Niemetz · Commonwealth v. Smith · 423 Pa. Super. 264 - Commonwealth v. Brown · Hayes v. Mercy Health Corp. · 236 Pa. Super. 404 - Commonwealth v. Compel
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.
“Discretion is abused when the course pursued by the trial court represents not merely an error in judgment, but where the judgment is manifestly unreasonable or where the law is not applied or where the record shows that the action is a result of partiality, prejudice, bias or ill will.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commonwealth v. Kane“A motion to quash a criminal information or indictment is [addressed] within the sound discretion of the trial judge[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commonwealth v. Kane
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.