405 Pa. Super. 452 - Commonwealth v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently June 2023
24 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 McMillan v. Pennsylvania · Commonwealth v. Tuladziecki · Commonwealth v. Devers · Commonwealth v. Sessoms · United States v. Holland
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Our Court stated in Commonwealth v. Murphy, supra, The imposition of a proper sentence is a matter vested in the sound discretion of the trial court whose determination must be respected unless it involves a manifest abuse of discretion. However, the trial court must exercise its discretion in accordance with the applicable provisions of the Sentencing Code, 42 Pa.C.S. §§ 9701 et seq. The Code provides, in pertinent part, that the trial court “shall follow the general principle that the sentence imposed should call for confinement that is consistent with the protection of the public, the gravity of the offense as it relates to the impact on the life of the victim and on the community, and the rehabilitative needs of the defendant. The court shall also consider any [relevant] guidelines for sentencing adopted by the Pennsylvania Commission on Sentencing. In every case where the court imposes a sentence outside the sentencing guidelines the court shall provide a contemporaneous written statement of the reason or reasons for the deviation from the guidelines.” 42 Pa.C.S. § 9721(b). [A] sentencing court is not required to adopt the recommendations in the Sentencing Guidelines but it must at least consider them. The sentencing guidelines do not preclude judicial discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“possesses with intent to deliver a controlled substance within 1000 feet of a ... school....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“read `possession, with intent to deliver within 1000 feet of a school'”
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.