2000 Pa. Super. 8 - Commonwealth v. Hess’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
20 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Tuladziecki · Commonwealth v. Devers · 446 Pa. Super. 192 - Commonwealth v. Johnson · 1999 Pa. Super. 257 - Commonwealth v. Brown · 403 Pa. Super. 492 - Commonwealth v. Cornish
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[sentencing is a matter vested in the sound discretion of the sentencing judge, and a sentence will not be disturbed on appeal absent a manifest abuse of discretion. An abuse of discretion is more than just an error in judgment and, on appeal, the trial court will not be found to have abused its discretion unless the record discloses that the judgment exercised was manifestly unreasonable, or the result of partiality, prejudice, bias, or ill-will.”
4 later decisions 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.