2007 Pa. Super. 73 - Commonwealth v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
19
cited by 19 later decisions
1
states following
August 2014
most recently cited
19 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Castillo · Commonwealth v. Anderson · Commonwealth v. Jones · 2005 Pa. Super. 105 - Commonwealth v. Williams · In the Mule
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No crimes shall merge for sentencing purposes unless the crimes arise from a single criminal act and all of the statutory elements of one offense are included in the statutory elements of the other offense. Where crimes merge for sentencing purposes, the court may sentence the defendant only on the higher graded offense.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“(a) OFFENSE DEFINED.— (1) A person who has been convicted of an offense enumerated in subsection (b), within or without this Commonwealth, regardless of the length of sentence or whose conduct meets the criteria in subsection (c) shall not possess, use, control, sell, transfer or manufacture or obtain a license to possess, use, control, sell, transfer or manufacture a firearm in this Commonwealth. (2)(i) A person who is prohibited from possessing, using, controlling, selling, transferring or manufacturing a firearm under paragraph (1) or subsection (b) or (c) shall have a reasonable period of time, not to exceed 60 days from the date of the imposition of the disability under this subsection, in which to sell or transfer that person’s firearms to another eligible person who is not a member of the prohibited person’s household.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“§ 6105(a) contains a statutory element that § 6106(a) does not: namely, conviction of an enumerated offense. Under § 6105, the Commonwealth need not prove that the defendant lacks a valid license. Rather, it must only prove that Appellant was convicted of an enumerated offense. Similarly, § 6106(a) contains a statutory element that § 6105(a) does not: namely, lack of a valid license.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
How this case has been treated — in progress
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