2014 Pa. Super. 61 - Commonwealth v. Tobin’s Empirical Analysis
2014
Citation profile
15 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Alleyne v. United States · 367 Pa. Super. 511 - Commonwealth v. Krum · Commonwealth v. Vasquez · 433 Pa. Super. 111 - Commonwealth v. Quinlan · 2007 Pa. Super. 230 - Commonwealth v. Robinson
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The two most basic and classic examples of an illegal sentence are sentences that exceed the statutory maximum and a sentence imposed by a court without jurisdiction.”
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.