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← 2002 Pa. Super. 201 - Commonwealth v. Leber

2002 Pa. Super. 201 - Commonwealth v. Leber’s Empirical Analysis

2002

Citation profile

4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
August 2014
most recently cited

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.

  1. “[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

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.