260 Pa. Super. 454 - Commonwealth v. Lowry’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently August 2014
21 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · Carroll v. United States · Aguilar v. Texas · Chimel v. California · Escobedo v. Illinois
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Our review of the record bears out appellant’s complaint that he was never personally afforded an opportunity to speak before sentencing was pronounced. The proceeding, as the Commonwealth concedes, presents a lamentable departure from the guidelines imposed by our Supreme Court. Normally, our remedy would be to remand for resentencing in compliance with Rule 1405.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a defendant may be convicted of two merged crimes”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ellis
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.