Commonwealth v. Bernal’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
April 2008
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 395 Pa. Super. 184 - Commonwealth v. Lyons · 395 Pa. Super. 400 - Commonwealth v. Sperry
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Every person convicted of a second or subsequent violation of [Section 3733] shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than $200 nor more than $1,000 or to imprisonment for not more than six months, or both....”
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.