Commonwealth v. Ashe’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently October 1985 · most notably Commonwealth Ex Rel. Stevens v. Myers (1965), Commonwealth Ex Rel. McGinnis v. Ashe (1938)
3 federal appellate · 60 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.
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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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Even a court has no power To lump two sentences into one’ (Com. ex rel. Miller v. Ashe, 114 Pa. Superior Ct. 332 , 174 A. 295 ), and certainly the act of the prison authorities in attempting to lump Lynch’s two sentences into one is without statutory or other legal support. For prison officials to do this might be a matter of convenience in keeping records and might simplify somewhat the procedure in applications for parole made by those who, like the appellant here, are serving consecutive sentences, but authority to lump such sentences, if such authority is desirable, must'be obtained from the legislature.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Prisoners are not automatically paroled at the expiration of their minimum term. They are merely eligible for parole at that time. The granting of a parole is a matter of grace, and a valid parole can be secured only in the manner provided by law.”
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.