2004 Pa. Super. 77 - Commonwealth v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Widmer · Gaito v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation & Parole · Martin v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation & Parole · Commonwealth ex rel. Bleecher v. Rundle · 2003 Pa. Super. 205 - Commonwealth v. Wilson
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Rather, the role of the trial judge is to determine that notwithstanding all the facts, certain facts are so clearly of greater weight that to ignore them or give them equal weight with all the other facts is to deny justice.”
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.