404 Pa. Super. 249 - Commonwealth v. Dickerson’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently August 2010 · most notably Commonwealth v. Shiffler (2005), Commonwealth v. McClintic (2006)
29 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 Commonwealth Ex Rel. Washington v. Maroney · Commonwealth v. Pierce · Commonwealth v. Tuladziecki · Karis v. Karis · Commonwealth v. Sneed
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Defendant] does not fall within that class of persons for which the enhancement penalty was intended. It was not intended that the heavier penalty prescribed for the commission of a second offense should descend upon anyone except the incorrigible one, who after being reproved, “still hardeneth his neck.” If the heavier penalty prescribed for the second violation ... is visited upon the one who has not had the benefit of the reproof of a first conviction, then the purpose of the statute is lost.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“(b) Prior convictions for crimes of violence.—For the purposes of subsection (a) [the penalty provision], an offender shall be deemed to have prior convictions for crimes of violence if both of the following conditions hold: (1) [Sets forth the specific crimes of violence for which the offender must have been previously convicted in order to invoke the mandatory recidivist penalty provisions of subsection (a)] (2) The previous conviction occurred within seven years of the date of the commission of the instant offense____ A previous conviction shall include any conviction, whether or not litigation is pending concerning that conviction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the previous conviction occurred within seven years of the date of the commission of the instant offense.”
2 later decisions 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.