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2010 Pa. Super. 23 - Commonwealth v. Downing’s Empirical Analysis

2010

Citation profile

13
cited by 13 later decisions
1
states following
October 2025
most recently cited

13 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Commonwealth v. Druce · 2009 Pa. Super. 96 - Commonwealth v. Ventura · 2007 Pa. Super. 110 - Commonwealth v. Matroni · 306 Pa. Super. 229 - Commonwealth v. Karash · Com. v. PLS

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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “this [c]ourt has held on numerous occasions that a claim of inadequate consideration of mitigating factors does not raise a substantial question for our review.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “Sentencing is vested in the discretion of the trial court, and will not be disturbed absent a manifest abuse of that discretion.”
    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.