248 Pa. Super. 1 - Commonwealth v. Andrews’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
December 1981
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Martin · United States v. Wiley · Commonwealth v. Riggins · 244 Pa. Super. 388 - Commonwealth v. Kaminski · 247 Pa. Super. 36 - Commonwealth v. Smith
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Probably nothing has corroded respect for the criminal justice system more than judicial indulgence in unexplained widely disparate sentences.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.