436 Pa. Super. 1 - Commonwealth v. Mayes’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 state decisions

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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “shall not be an element of the crime.... The applicability of this section shall be determined at sentencing. The court shall consider evidence presented at trial, shall afford the Commonwealth and the defendant an opportunity to present necessary additional evidence and shall determine, by a preponderance of the evidence, if this section is applicable.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 438 Pa. Super. 55 - Commonwealth v. Carroll

2. “I find as a fact that ... you were a user as well as [a seller of cocaine]. I further find as a matter of fact neither beyond a reasonable doubt nor beyond a preponderance that the amount which was possessed with the intent to deliver was necessarily in excess of two grams.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 452 Pa. Super. 299 - Commonwealth v. Myers