Commonwealth v. Verna’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently November 2010 · most notably 60 Pa. Commw. 647 - Commonwealth v. Calloway (1981), 28 Pa. Commw. 157 - Bureau of Traffic Safety v. Stafford (1977)
25 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Emerick · Commonwealth v. Garman · Commonwealth v. McCartney · Commonwealth v. Strobel · Commonwealth v. Etzel
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he court may not, as a parallel to exercising its discretion as factfinder, do more than (1) affirm the Director’s penalty because the law as applied to the facts heard de novo leads to a conclusion of a violation of the law or (2) reverse the Director’s penalty because the law as applied to the facts heard de novo does not lead to a conclusion of a violation of law. The court may not, because of the possible unfairness or inequity of the result, reverse the Director or modify the penalty imposed.”
3 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.