Com. v. Ligon, O.’s Empirical Analysis
2019
Citation profile
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Myma · 339 Pa. Super. 320 - Commonwealth v. McGuire · 453 Pa. Super. 36 - Commonwealth v. Waller · Commonwealth v. Carson · 344 Pa. Super. 571 - Commonwealth v. Finn
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t] he court must calibrate the penalty in a criminal case to the nature of the violation, while taking into account other relevant circumstances,”
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.