2017 Pa. Super. 281 - Commonwealth v. Perfetto’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 state decisions

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.

1. “(1) the former prosecution resulted in an acquittal or conviction; (2) the current prosecution was based on the same criminal conduct or arose from the same criminal episode; (3) the prosecutor in the subsequent trial was aware of the charges before the first trial; and (4) all charges [are] within the same judicial district as the former prosecution.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Brown

2. “created a statutory scheme in which the General Division would hear those cases in which the Commonwealth charged a defendant with both summary and misdemeanor traffic offenses and the Traffic Division would hear those cases in which the Commonwealth only charged a defendant with a summary offense.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Perfetto, M., Aplt.

3. “under the plain language of section 112(1), a subsequent prosecution is not barred where the court presiding over the 'former prosecution,' while it had jurisdiction over that matter, lacked jurisdiction over the 'offense' to be prosecuted in the subsequent prosecution”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Perfetto, M., Aplt.