298 Pa. Super. 257 - Commonwealth v. Kerr’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Commonwealth v. Lobiondo (1983), 302 Pa. Super. 145 - Commonwealth v. Galloway (1982)
39 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 · 267 Pa. Super. 504 - Commonwealth v. Fuqua · Feeley v. United States · 286 Pa. Super. 65 - Commonwealth v. Erb · 87 Ill. App. 3d 544 - People v. Wilson
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]s a sentence, or a condition of sentence, imposed following a criminal conviction, an order of restitution is not an award of damages. While the order aids the victim, its true purpose, and the reason for its imposition, is the rehabilitative goal it serves by impressing upon the offender the loss he has caused and his responsibility to repair the loss as far as it is possible to do so.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(a) General rule. Upon conviction for any crime wherein property has been stolen, converted or otherwise unlawfully obtained, or its value substantially decreased as a direct result to the crime, or wherein the victim suffered personal injury directly resulting from the crime, the offender may be sentenced to make restitution in addition to the punishment prescribed therefor.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“right of subrogation transforms the sentence [ordering restitution] into an order directing payment to one who was not the victim of the crime.”
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.