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← 388 Pa. Super. 327 - Commonwealth v. Barnes

388 Pa. Super. 327 - Commonwealth v. Barnes’s Empirical Analysis

1989

Citation profile

6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
July 1990
most recently cited

6 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Commonwealth v. Tuladziecki · Karis v. Karis · Commonwealth v. Martin · United States v. Waters · Commonwealth v. Lutz

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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “The defendant or the Commonwealth may file a petition for allowance of appeal of the discretionary aspects of a sentence for a felony or a misdemeanor to the appellate court that has initial jurisdiction for such appeals. Allowance of appeal may be granted at the discretion of the appellate court where it appears that there is a substantial question that the sentence imposed is not appropriate under this chapter.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence

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.