365 Pa. Super. 556 - Commonwealth v. McMullen’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently April 2007
12 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 Commonwealth v. Pierce · Commonwealth v. Tuladziecki · 341 Pa. Super. 468 - Commonwealth v. Drumgoole · 362 Pa. Super. 408 - Commonwealth v. Taylor · 347 Pa. Super. 93 - Commonwealth v. Johnson
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f the court had known that the standard range was actually twenty-four to forty-eight months, a shorter sentence might well have been imposed (citation omitted). We have held that when a sentencing court was not cognizant of the correct guideline sentence ranges before imposing sentence, the sentence must be vacated and the appellant resentenced. Commonwealth v. Taylor, 362 Pa.Super. 408, 423 , 524 A.2d 942, 950 (1987); Commonwealth v. Johnakin, 348 Pa.Super. 432, 438 , 502 A.2d 620, 623 (1985); Commonwealth v. Drumgoole, 341 Pa.Super. 468, 474-75 , 491 A.2d 1352, 1355 (1985).”
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.