437 Pa. Super. 521 - Commonwealth v. Lawson’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably 449 Pa. Super. 319 - Commonwealth v. Rodriquez (1996), 2013 Pa. Super. 70 - Commonwealth v. Griffin (2013)
55 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 Commonwealth v. Tuladziecki · Shiomos v. STATE EMP. RETIREMENT BD. · Commonwealth v. Jones · 367 Pa. Super. 511 - Commonwealth v. Krum · Commonwealth v. Morin
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A petition for habeas corpus relief must specifically allege facts, which if true would entitle the defendant to an award of writ of habeas corpus. Balsamo v. Mazurkiewicz, 417 Pa.Super. 36 , 611 A.2d 1250 (1992). However, where a defendant requests a writ of habeas corpus on the grounds that the Commonwealth has failed to establish a prima facie case, the Commonwealth may present further evidence to ensure that it has established a prima facie case. Commonwealth v. Morman, 373 Pa.Super. 360 , 541 A.2d 356 (1988) (the purpose of a habeas corpus proceeding is not merely to review the prior preliminary hearing but rather to determine the legality of the existing restraint on the petitioner’s liberty). The evidence may consist of evidence previously presented at the preliminary hearing as well as any additional evidence. Id.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“When imposing sentences for convictions arising out of the same transactions, the prior record score is computed for the offense with the highest offense gravity score in such transaction. For the remaining offenses in such transaction, the prior record score shall be zero.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a crime or crimes which were committed by an offender at a single time or in temporally continuous actions that are part of the same episode, event, or incident, or which are conspiracy and the object 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.