2002 Pa. Super. 201 - Commonwealth v. Leber’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Brown · Commonwealth v. Carson · 456 Pa. Super. 620 - Commonwealth v. Figueroa · Commonwealth v. Lussi · 429 Pa. Super. 180 - Commonwealth v. Dietterick
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]his same policy remains in force nearly sixty years later and continues to prevent the Commonwealth for pursuing general criminal charges against an individual whose conduct was intended to be punished by a “specific penal provision” that constitutes the exclusive legal authority: for prosecution of the acts charged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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