2003 Pa. Super. 371 - Commonwealth v. Shiffler’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
April 2008
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Dickerson · Commonwealth v. McCandless · 404 Pa. Super. 249 - Commonwealth v. Dickerson
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Id. at 1131 . In his concurring and dissenting opinion, President Judge Emeritus McEwen agreed with the trial court that appellant should be sentenced as a second-time offender under Section 9714(a)(1). P.J.E. McEwen stated that,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he purpose of habitual criminal legislation ... is to impose a further penalty upon those hardened and incorrigible criminals who have been unaffected by prior punishment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“so widely cast the net of incorrigibility that will pull appellant into the penitentiary for 25 years....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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