374 Pa. Super. 431 - Commonwealth v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently July 2011
18 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 Singer v. Sheppard · Commonwealth v. Wright · Commonwealth v. Bell · Commonwealth v. Snyder · 334 Pa. Super. 513 - Commonwealth v. Waters
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Section 9713 of the Act was designed to promote and protect users and providers of public transportation services.... Furthermore, the legislature intended to protect municipal interests in public transportation systems for such systems are often funded by tax revenue or licensed by the state or municipalities. Since public transportation is utilized by the public at large, these people must feel safe and protected while riding or waiting for public vehicles. In order to further these goals, the legislature im posed a more severe punishment upon those who committed crimes on or near public transportation as it is within its province to do. At the time the Act was passed by our Senate it was that legislative body’s general intent to eradicate violent crime by eliminating inconsistency and leniency in sentencing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[l]awfully-enacted legislation is presumed to be constitutional. An Act of Assembly will not be declared unconstitutional unless it clearly, palpably and plainly violates the Constitution. The burden rests on the party seeking to upset the legislative action on constitutional grounds. All doubt is to be resolved in favor of sustaining the legislation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.