296 Pa. Super. 382 - Commonwealth v. Gallagher’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently May 2009 · most notably Commonwealth v. Begley (2001), 347 Pa. Super. 64 - Commonwealth v. Frazier (1985)
27 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 Benton v. Maryland · Mahan v. Howell · Commonwealth v. Riggins · Commonwealth v. Silverman · Commonwealth v. Brown
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“upon the defendant’s conduct during the sentencing colloquy which clearly indicated ... the fact that he had no remorse for his crimes and his utter contempt for the legal process---- A criminal defendant’s attitude, including a lack of contrition for his criminal conduct, is one of the proper criteria upon which a court may exercise its discretion in sentencing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“that even an increase in sentence which is merely designed to correct an inadvertent judicial mistake must be scrutinized as carefully as an increase which results from a reconsideration of sentencing factors or from a judicial change of mind.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.