2005 Pa. Super. 219 - Commonwealth v. Berry’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently July 2021
24 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Faretta v. California · Von Moltke v. Gillies · Commonwealth v. Fahy · Commonwealth v. Lawson · Commonwealth v. Szuchon
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While the sentence is — as the majority rea sons — numerically legal since it falls within the statutory maximum, it can hardly be said that the sentence, wrought by defective waiver colloquies and judicial error, is constitutionally legal. I cannot partake in the charade of denying relief that Due Process guarantees, on the semantic basis that a sentence is illegal only where it exceeds the statutory maximum. A sentence woven from unconstitutional fabric, in this case entered in violation of a plea agreement and rules of court, is illegal.”
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.