382 Pa. Super. 317 - Commonwealth v. Tavares’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently January 2015 · most notably 428 Pa. Super. 259 - Commonwealth v. Donahue (1993), 398 Pa. Super. 538 - Commonwealth v. Ellis (1990)
42 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 Grayned v. City of Rockford · Hoffman Estates v. Flipside, Hoffman Estates, Inc. · Grayned v. City of Rockford · United States v. Mazurie · Commonwealth v. Pierce
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In order to pass constitutional muster ‘a criminal statute must give reasonable notice of the conduct which it proscribes to a person charged with violating its interdiction.’ In addition, the statute must provide a standard for law enforcement officials so as to prevent arbitrary and discriminatory enforcement. However, the constitutional requirement of notice does not serve to ‘invalidate every statute which could have been drafted with greater precision,’ and statutes under attack are not ‘to be tested against paradigms of legislative draftsmanship.’”
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.