359 Pa. Super. 375 - Commonwealth v. Septak’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently July 2003 · most notably Commonwealth v. Smith (1996), 414 Pa. Super. 442 - Commonwealth v. Scullin (1992)
26 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.
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) When the court determines that the defendant possessed a deadly weapon, as defined in 18 Pa.C.S. § 2301, during the commission of a current conviction offense, at least 12 months and up to 24 months shall be added to the guidelines sentence range which would otherwise have been applicable.”
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.