271 Pa. Super. 72 - Commonwealth v. Bachert’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently February 2009 · most notably Commonwealth v. Bachert (1982), 315 Pa. Super. 281 - Commonwealth v. Ford (1983)
4 federal appellate · 33 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2106
Relies on Commonwealth v. Riggins · Austin v. United States · Fuller v. United States · Commonwealth v. Strantz · Commonwealth v. Tate
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“held that the trial court should place on the record its reasons for imposing the particular sentence chosen. The Court believed that absent such a statement of reasons, the record would not reveal whether the trial court had considered the legislatively mandated factors set forth in the Sentencing Code, Act of December 30, 1974, P.L. 1052, No. 345, as amended, 18 Pa.C.S.A. §§ 1301 et seq. The Riggins Court recognized that “[traditionally, appellate courts have left sentences undisturbed on appeal because of the view that the trial court is in a far better position to weigh the factors involved in sentencing determinations.” 474 Pa. at 123 , 377 A.2d at 144 . Although the reasons set forth by the trial court for the sentences imposed were devoid of explication, they still may be valid. In Commonwealth v. Wareham, 259 Pa.Super. 527 , 393 A.2d 951 (1978) the Court stated: It is better practice for the court to include in its statement of reasons for the sentence some reference to the guidelines specified in the Sentencing Code, with some explanation of how consideration of those guidelines affected the determination of sentence. Commonwealth v. Riggins, supra. Still, we should not hold a statement of reasons insufficient, and therefore require vacation and remand, when it is apparent that even though the court made no reference to the guidelines, it did consider and apply them. 259 Pa.Super. at 534 , 393 A.2d at 954 . As suggested by the Wareham decision, the thrust of Riggins ”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“When there is evidence that one, who has not struck the fatal blow, has, nonetheless, shared in the criminal intent and the criminal activity, that person has aided and abetted in the commission of the crime and, thus, may be held responsible as an accomplice to another’s acts and the consequences of those acts. Commonwealth v. Rife, 454 Pa. 506 , 312 A.2d 406 (1973); Commonwealth v. Wilson, 449 Pa. 235 , 296 A.2d 719 (1972); Commonwealth v. Lowry, 374 Pa. 594 , 98 A.2d 733 (1953). “The least degree of concert or collusion between parties to an illegal transaction makes the act of one the act of all. ” Commonwealth v. Strantz, 328 Pa. 33, 40 , 195 A. 75, 79 (1937).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[s]ince first degree murder requires the existence of a specific intent to take life, the evidence must show that the shared intent included the design to take the life of the victim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Everett v. Beard
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.