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← 2009 Pa. Super. 18 - Commonwealth v. Kneller

2009 Pa. Super. 18 - Commonwealth v. Kneller’s Empirical Analysis

2009

Citation profile

2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
July 2010
most recently cited

2 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Commonwealth v. McClintic · Commonwealth v. Dickson · Com. v. PLRB · Commonwealth, Office of Administration v. Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board · 2007 Pa. Super. 204 - Snead v. Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

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.

  1. “3 P.S. § 459-101 et seq., are ambiguous and, under the rule of lenity, the statutes cannot be used to penalize Kneller's actions. Specifically, the Majority held the following: We note that the statutory language of section 325, et seq., titled”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “[n]othing in this act shall prevent a person or humane society organization from destroying a pet animal by means of firearms.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “entire Dog Law is ambiguous as to whether a dog owner can kill his dog by means of a firearm.”
    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.