2012 Pa. Super. 267 - Commonwealth v. Lofton’s Empirical Analysis
2012
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
2
states following
August 2020
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Griffith v. Kentucky · Miller v. Alabama · Commonwealth v. Widmer · Commonwealth v. Farquharson · Commonwealth v. Cabeza
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . must [have been] preserved either in a post-sentence motion, by a written motion before sentencing, or orally prior to sentencing.”
4 later decisions 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.