280 Pa. Super. 470 - Commonwealth v. Crocker’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently September 2000 · most notably 344 Pa. Super. 108 - Commonwealth v. Williams (1985), 296 Pa. Super. 441 - Commonwealth v. Miranda (1982)
58 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. Walker · Commonwealth v. Holmes · 263 Pa. Super. 206 - Commonwealth v. Madison · 247 Pa. Super. 513 - Commonwealth v. Olsen · Commonwealth v. Carter
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n merger of sentences cases, we focus not only on the similarity of the elements of the crimes but also, and primarily, on the facts proved at trial, for the question is whether those facts show that in practical effect the defendant committed a single criminal act, in which case there will be merger and only a single sentence may be imposed, or more than a single act, in which case there will be no merger and a sentence may be imposed for each act.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“"A person is guilty of burglary if he enters a building or occupied structure, or separately secured or occupied portion thereof, with intent to commit a crime therein ..." (Emphasis added).”
2 later decisions 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.