2009 Pa. Super. 83 - Commonwealth v. Mears’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently April 2020
9 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 Devlin v. City of Philadelphia · Rothrock v. Rothrock Motor Sales, Inc. · 2006 Pa. Super. 331 - Commonwealth v. Leverette · 2006 Pa. Super. 269 - Commonwealth v. Merolla · 2005 Pa. Super. 160 - Commonwealth v. Lee
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.
“The scope and standard of review applied to determine the legality of a sentence are well established. If no statutory authorization exists for a particular sentence, that sentence is illegal and subject to correction. An illegal sentence must be vacated. In evaluating a trial court’s application of a statute, our standard of review is plenary and is limited to determining whether the trial court committed an error of law.”
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.