402 Pa. Super. 411 - Commonwealth v. Nernberg’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Hill · 375 Pa. Super. 585 - Commonwealth v. Stewart · Commonwealth v. Gordon · 387 Pa. Super. 151 - Commonwealth v. Martorano · 276 Pa. Super. 418 - Commonwealth v. Gernsheimer
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An Act of Assembly which imposes penal sanctions for violation of its provisions must be strictly construed .... However, strict construction does not require that the words of a criminal statute be given their narrowest meaning or that the legislature’s evident intent be disregarded. In attempting to ascertain the meaning of the statute, we are required to consider the intent of the legislature and are permitted to examine the practical consequences of a particular interpretation. We are to presume the legislature did not intend a result which is absurd or unreasonable.”
2 later decisions 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.