347 Pa. Super. 239 - Commonwealth v. Pryor’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
11
cited by 11 later decisions
2
states following
March 1991
most recently cited
11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth Ex Rel. Banks v. Cain · Commonwealth v. Lutz · Zimmerman v. O'BANNON · 339 Pa. Super. 32 - Commonwealth v. Hernandez · Commonwealth v. Sourbeer
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““alone can prescribe the punishment to be meted out for crime. It can provide fixed penalties or grant to the court such measure of discretion in the imposition of sentences as it may see fit. It may enact that prison confinement shall be the punishment for crime or may abolish prisons altogether and adopt some other method of enforcing the criminal law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]ny person violating any of the provisions of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor in the second degree and the sentencing court shall order the person to pay a fine of not less than $300 and serve a minimum term of imprisonment of: (1) not less than 48 consecutive hours. (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.