336 Pa. Super. 275 - Commonwealth v. Carter’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently December 2013
15 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. Riggins · Commonwealth v. Knight · 275 Pa. Super. 373 - Commonwealth v. Doyle · 259 Pa. Super. 527 - Commonwealth v. Wareham · 301 Pa. Super. 17 - Commonwealth v. Franklin
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Rule 702. Aids in Imposing Sentence (A)Pre-sentence Investigation Report (1) The sentencing judge may, in the judge’s discretion, order a presentence investigation report in any case. (2) The sentencing judge shall place on the record the reasons for dispensing with the pre-sentence investigation report if the judge fails to order a pre-sentence report in any of the following instances: (a) when incarceration for one year or more is a possible disposition under the applicable sentencing statutes; (b) when the defendant is less than 21 years old at the time of conviction or entry of a plea of guilty; or (c) when a defendant is a first offender in that he or she has not heretofore been sentenced as an adult.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.