267 Pa. Super. 163 - Commonwealth v. Mallon’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably Commonwealth v. Brown (1983), 207 N.J. Super. 126 - State v. Reyes (1986)
51 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. Riggins · Commonwealth v. Duff · Commonwealth v. Duff · 264 Pa. Super. 435 - Commonwealth v. Usher · 255 Pa. Super. 524 - Commonwealth v. Rossetti
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the defendant has been convicted of another crime; or (2) the conduct of the defendant indicates that it is likely that he will commit another crime if he is not imprisoned; or (3) such a sentence is essential to vindicate the authority of the court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“an implied condition of any sentence of probation is that the defendant will not commit a further offense.”
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.