315 Pa. Super. 281 - Commonwealth v. Ford’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
97 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 99 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably 345 Pa. Super. 10 - Commonwealth v. Barnhart (1985), Williams v. State (1991)
97 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 North Carolina v. Pearce · Bordenkircher v. Hayes · United States v. DiFrancesco · Chaffin v. Stynchcombe · Consolidated Edison Co. of New York v. United States
Most-quoted passages
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“[Wjhen a defendant has been convicted after trial and sentenced under a multicount indictment and on appeal his conviction and sentence as to certain counts is set aside because such counts enhanced the sentence for the predicate felony which contained its own enhancement provision, the constitutional guarantee against double jeopardy does not preclude vacating the sentence on the predicate felony counts and the imposition of a new sentence by the trial judge on the remaining counts, which may be greater than, less than, or the same as the original sentence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“... the Commonwealth was not required to establish that appellant was part of the joint effort to cause the [commission of a crime upon] ... the victim by direct evidence. This burden may be sustained by means of wholly circumstantial evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A person may not be convicted of more than one of the inchoate crimes of criminal attempt, criminal solicitation or criminal conspiracy for conduct designed to commit or to culminate in the commission of the same crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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