2003 Pa. Super. 2 - Commonwealth v. Ballard’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Gagnon v. Scarpelli · 379 Pa. Super. 390 - Commonwealth v. Finley · Commonwealth v. Carpenter · 253 Pa. Super. 260 - Commonwealth v. Riley · 277 Pa. Super. 296 - Commonwealth v. Del Conte
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a term of probation may not be revoked for failure to pay fines absent certain considerations by the revocation court. Prior to revoking probation on the basis of failure to pay fines, costs or restitution, the court must inquire into the reasons for a defendant’s failure to pay and ... make findings pertaining to the willfulness of the party’s omission. In other words, [a] proper analysis should include an inquiry into the reasons surrounding the probationer’s failure to pay, followed by a determination of whether the probationer made a willful choice not to pay.... After making those determinations, if the court finds the probationer could not pay despite sufficient bona fide efforts to acquire resources to do so, the court should then consider alternatives to incarceration. ...”
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.