2002 Pa. Super. 190 - Commonwealth v. Fleming’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently December 2023
21 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 California Department of Corrections v. Morales · Alaska v. United States · North Carolina v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission · Artway v. Attorney General of New Jersey · E.B. v. Verniero
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Our Supreme Court has held that there is no violation of any ex post facto provision in requiring registration when the acts underlying an individual’s conviction occurred prior to the effective date of the registration requirements. Commonwealth v. Gaffney, 557 Pa. 327 , 733 A.2d 616, 617 (1999). The Court reasoned that the purpose of the legislation in requiring the registration of certain sex offenders was not punitive, but rather to promote public safety. Id. at 619. Accordingly, Appellant is entitled to no relief [on his claim that he is not subject to the registration requirements].”
2 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.