45 Pa. Commw. 490 - Sutherland v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently January 2001
9 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 Virnelson Motor Vehicle Operator License Case · 247 Pa. Super. 99 - Commonwealth v. Kindness · 34 Pa. Commw. 310 - Bureau of Traffic Safety v. Lea
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) The licensing authority in the home state, for the purposes of suspension, revocation or limitation of the license to operate a motor vehicle, shall give the same effect to the conduct reported, pursuant to Article III of this compact, as it would if such conduct had occurred in the home state in the case of convictions for: (1) manslaughter or negligent homicide resulting from the operation of a motor vehicle; (2) driving a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating liquor or a narcotic drug or under the influence of any other drug to a degree which renders the driver incapable of safely driving a motor vehicle; (3) any felony in the commission of which a motor vehicle is used; or (4) failure to stop and render aid in the event of a motor vehicle accident resulting in the death or personal injury of another.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]he “availability of ARD to an offender is entirely unrelated to the mandatory provisions of the [Vehicle] Code governing the [suspension] of operating privileges.” The Compact contains no requirements regarding the consequences of violating a DUI statute ... except to provide that the member state must give the same effect to substantially similar conduct reported by another member state as if such conduct had occurred in the home state.”
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.