267 Pa. Super. 598 - Commonwealth v. Black’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently February 2014 · most notably 281 Pa. Super. 505 - Commonwealth v. Boerner (1980), 452 Pa. Super. 508 - Commonwealth v. Larsen (1996)
26 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 Ex Rel. Moszczynski v. Ashe · Commonwealth v. Simmons · 250 Pa. Super. 182 - Commonwealth v. Wilks · Commonwealth v. Komatowski · Commonwealth v. Jackson
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When the law speaks of a conviction it means a judgment, and not merely a verdict, which in common parlance is called conviction. Smith v. Commonwealth, 14 Serg. & R. 69, 70 (1826).””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Of the distinction between a verdict and a conviction our Supreme Court long ago said: “When the law speaks of a ‘conviction,’ it means & judgment, and not merely a verdict, which in common parlance is called a ‘conviction.’ ” Smith v. Commonwealth, 14 Serg. & R. 69, 70 (1826). In situations where the trial court has wrongfully convicted appellant of burglary and the offense which it was his intent to commit after the burglarious entry, and sentenced him on both, we have not talked of verdicts “unauthorized by the law” and awarded appellants new trials. Instead, we have merely vacated the lesser of the two sentences. See, e.g., Commonwealth v. Price, 258 Pa.Super. 625 , 391 A.2d 696 (1978); Commonwealth v. Wilks, 250 Pa.Super. 182 , 378 A.2d 887 (1977); Commonwealth v. Simmons, 233 Pa.Super. 547 , 336 A.2d 624 (1975).”
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.