Commonwealth v. Tomlin’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently December 2004 · most notably 315 Pa. Super. 281 - Commonwealth v. Ford (1983), 250 Pa. Super. 402 - Commonwealth v. Bailey (1977)
31 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 North Carolina v. Pearce · Commonwealth v. Silverman · Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts · Commonwealth v. Allen · United States of America Ex Rel. Donald E. Starner v. Harry E. Russell, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If a trial court suspends sentence and places the defendant on probation, the court is not limited by a term of probation in sentencing the defendant who has violated a condition of probation. Commonwealth v. Cole, 222 Pa.Super. 229 , 294 A.2d 824 (1972). Cole , however, articulates a caveat to this power: “If a defendant is sentenced, but the judge chooses to suspend sentence pending a period of probation, the trial judge may re-sentence the defendant if he violates that probation. The maximum period of the re-sentence is limited, however, to the maximum term under which the defendant was originally sentenced.” 222 Pa.Super. at 231 , 294 A.2d at 825 (emphasis added).”
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.