321 Pa. Super. 44 - Commonwealth v. Black’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
16 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Green · Commonwealth v. Edrington · 296 Pa. Super. 288 - Commonwealth v. Rooney · 308 Pa. Super. 450 - Commonwealth v. Casuccio · 284 Pa. Super. 291 - Commonwealth v. Campolei
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that the sentence imposed should call for confinement that is consistent with the protection of the public, the gravity of the offense as it relates to the impact on the life of the victim and on the community, and the rehabilitative needs of the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.