438 Pa. Super. 499 - Commonwealth v. Stepp’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 421 Pa. Super. 433 - Commonwealth v. Johnson · 430 Pa. Super. 631 - Chew-Bittel Associates, Inc. v. Crusader Savings Bank · 334 Pa. Super. 549 - Commonwealth v. Dickison · 401 Pa. Super. 426 - Commonwealth v. Jackson
Most-quoted passages
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“[t]he danger of harm to a person is the same whether that person confronts the burglar upon re-entry into his home or whether he comes downstairs and finds the burglar in his living room. While it may be true that some burglars are more “professional” than others and plan their criminal activity so that the occupants are most likely absent when the burglar puts his plan into motion, many burglars simply choose to burglarize a structure which appears unoccupied. In either situation, it does not advance the interests of justice to “reward” the burglar with a lower offense gravity score simply because he was lucky at the moment he entered the then unoccupied structure. A potentially violent encounter exists whenever a person discovers an intruder inside his home.”
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.