349 Pa. Super. 310 - Commonwealth v. Stevens’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently August 2005
13 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 · 344 Pa. Super. 200 - Commonwealth v. Mills
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the court below relied solely on appellant's prior record to impose a sentence outside of the sentencing guidelines for retail theft, that sentence must be vacated . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“sentences should not be aggravated or mitigated for circumstances incorporated in other provisions of the Guidelines, such as. . . prior record.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The purpose of the sentencing guidelines is to insure that more uniform sentences are imposed in this Commonwealth.”
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.