406 Pa. Super. 445 - Commonwealth v. Hyde’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Batchelder · United States v. Batchelder · James v. Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority · Commonwealth v. Lutz · Commonwealth v. Parker White Metal Co.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Once ARD proceedings are initiated, the defendant has a host of opportunities before him to prove himself worthy of the program and, in the end, to have the charges against him dismissed and to have his arrest record expunged. Pa.R.Crim.P. 185, 186. I neither condone drunk driving nor purport to suggest an appropriate cut-off point for admission into an ARD program. Rather, I acknowledge the value and benefits of the ARD program. However, enforcing the policy behind it, to wit, the rehabilitation of the offender and the protection of society (see [Commonwealth v.] Knowles, supra., 373 Pa.Super. [203] at 206-07, 208-09, 540 A.2d [938] at 940, 941) [(1988)], should be the Commonwealth’s goal.”
1 later decision 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.