432 Pa. Super. 496 - Commonwealth v. Canfield’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
29 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on In re the Primary Election of May 21, 1991 · 369 Pa. Super. 192 - Commonwealth v. Losch · 418 Pa. Super. 93 - Commonwealth v. Jones · 328 Pa. Super. 60 - Commonwealth v. Royer · 311 Pa. Super. 419 - Commonwealth v. Sinwell
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.
“In every case where the court imposes a sentence outside the sentencing guidelines adopted by the Pennsylvania Commission on Sentencing ... the court shall provide a contemporaneous written statement of the reason or reasons for the deviation from the guidelines. Failure to comply shall be grounds for vacating the sentence and resentencing the defendant.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“requires a trial judge who intends to sentence a defendant outside the guidelines to demonstrate on the record, as a proper starting point, his awareness of the sentencing guidelines”
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.