344 Pa. Super. 200 - Commonwealth v. Mills’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2017
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 328 Pa. Super. 60 - Commonwealth v. Royer · 341 Pa. Super. 468 - Commonwealth v. Drumgoole
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A court is not required to follow the guidelines where, as here, the defendant's prior record permits a court to infer that he is an incurable recidivist, that prior rehabilitative efforts have been unsuccessful, and that the defendant has become a threat to law-abiding citizens. Drumgoole does not hold otherwise.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“He contends that, in reality, the only reason given by the sentencing court was that appellant had had seven prior convictions for burglary. This, he argues, demonstrated an erroneous application of the guidelines and an unreasonable departure therefrom.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“We reject appellant's argument. The reasons given by the sentencing court for imposing the maximum sentence authorized for burglary entailed a great deal more than the fact of seven prior convictions for burglary.”
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.