366 Pa. Super. 54 - Commonwealth v. Becker’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently June 2011 · most notably Commonwealth v. Dickerson (1993), 432 Pa. Super. 183 - Commonwealth v. Wood (1994)
56 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 McMillan v. Pennsylvania · Commonwealth v. Wright · Commonwealth v. Bell · Commonwealth v. Lutz · Commonwealth v. Lobiondo
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(ii) A mandatory suspension of operating privilege for a period of not less than one month but not more than 12 months.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) Any person violating any of the provisions of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of 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: (i) not less than 48 consecutive hours. (ii) not less than 30 days if the person has previously been convicted of an offense under this section or of an equivalent offense in this or other jurisdictions within the previous seven years. (2) Acceptance of Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition or any other form of preliminary disposition of any charge brought under this section shall be considered a first conviction for the purpose of computing whether a subsequent conviction of a violation of this section shall be considered a second, third, fourth or subsequent conviction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“We emphasize that our decision in the instant case is narrow in scope. We deal here only with the proper interpretation of § 3731(e)(2).... It is true that when the word ‘conviction’ appears in a statute it is usually taken to mean ‘the ascertainment of the guilt of the accused and judgment thereon by the court[.] However, this technical definition of conviction could not be applied ‘where the intention of the legislature is obviously to the contrary____’”
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.