Commonwealth v. Duff’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently December 2005 · most notably Commonwealth v. Garrett (1966), Commonwealth v. Goldhammer (1986)
9 federal appellate · 71 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 Com. ex rel. Wilhelm v. Morgan · Commonwealth Ex Rel. McGinnis v. Ashe
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Theories of implied probation and indefinite suspension of sentence are not only contrary to the clearly expressed intention of the legislature, but are also violative of true principles of probation and, as in this case, promote confusion where none should exist.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“in Commonwealth v. Duff, 414 Pa. 471 , 200 A. 2d 773 (1964), and has held therein that, under the Acts of June 19, 1911, P.L. 1055, § 1, 19 P.S. § 1051, and August 6, 1941, P.L. 861, 61 P.S. § 331.25,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“. . . where no sentence is imposed, the defendant should be placed on probation for a fixed period of time, not to exceed the maximum period of imprisonment allowed by law for the particular offense,”
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.