2007 Pa. Super. 300 - Commonwealth v. Pleger’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently March 2021
21 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 267 Pa. Super. 504 - Commonwealth v. Fuqua · 349 Pa. Super. 583 - Commonwealth v. Mourar · In Re MW · In the Interest of M.W. · 2006 Pa. Super. 33 - Commonwealth v. McCoy
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Athough restitution does not seek, by its essential nature, the compensation of the victim, the dollar value of the injury suffered by the victim as a result of the crime assists the court in calculating the appropriate amount of restitution. A restitution award must not exceed the victim’s losses. A sentencing court must consider the victim’s injuries, the victim’s request as presented by the district attorney and such other matters as the court deems appropriate. The court must also ensure that the record contains the factual basis for the .appropriate amount of restitution. In that way, the record will support the sentence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commonwealth v. Veon“Various characteristics of restitution further illustrate that its true nature is that of a criminal sanction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“restitution is simply not an award of damages, but, rather, a sentence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Com. v. CL
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.