299 Pa. Super. 488 - Commonwealth v. Young’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 265 Pa. Super. 305 - Commonwealth v. Wicks · 275 Pa. Super. 373 - Commonwealth v. Doyle · 276 Pa. Super. 494 - Commonwealth v. Kostka · 294 Pa. Super. 599 - Commonwealth v. Kraft
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... the character of the defendant and the particular circumstances of the offense in light of the legislative guidelines for sentencing, and ... impose a sentence that is the minimum sentence consistent with the protection of the public, the gravity of the offense, and the rehabilitative needs of the defendant. Commonwealth v. Wicks, 265 Pa.Super. 305, 310 , 401 A.2d 1223, 1225 (1979) (collecting cases). (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The first responsibility of the sentencing judge [is] to be sure that he ha[s] before him sufficient information to enable him to make a determination of the circumstances of the offense and the character of the defendant.”
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.