Commonwealth v. Kunish’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently October 2023
21 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 North Carolina v. Pearce · Green v. United States · United States v. DiFrancesco · Ex parte Lange · Bozza v. United States
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The circumstances under which a defendant may claim a legitimate expectation in the finality of his sentence, subject to the protections of the double jeopardy clause, must await precise definition in our case law. However, it is certain that some general principles may be set forth. As in DiFrancesco, supra, statutes relevant to the length of a defendant’s sentence may defeat a legitimate expectation of finality. A criminal defendant is charged with knowledge of applicable statutory provisions. Further, where a defendant challenges the original sentence, appeals from the conviction or otherwise challenges the conviction or sentence, no legitimate expectation of finality will attach. It has also been noted that where “... one intentionally deceives the sentencing authority or thwarts the sentencing process ... [he] can have no legitimate expectation regarding the sentence thereby procured.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“We expressly overruled our prior decision in Commonwealth v. Brown, [ 455 Pa. 274 , 314 A.2d 506 (1974)] which had relied upon decisions of the United States Supreme Court predating U.S. v. DiFrancesco ■ ■ ■”
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.