347 Pa. Super. 64 - Commonwealth v. Frazier’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently January 2014 · most notably 369 Pa. Super. 192 - Commonwealth v. Losch (1987), 420 Pa. Super. 311 - Commonwealth v. Cottam (1992)
44 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 Roberts v. United States · Commonwealth v. Riggins · Commonwealth v. Knight · 328 Pa. Super. 60 - Commonwealth v. Royer · 259 Pa. Super. 527 - Commonwealth v. Wareham
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the particular circumstances of the offense and the character of the defendant.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he 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“Among those factors used to determine a defendant’s potential for rehabilitation is his or her manifestation of social conscience and responsibility through contrition, repentance, and cooperation with law enforcement agencies.”
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.