Commonwealth v. Wolf’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently July 2014 · most notably 434 Pa. Super. 1 - Commonwealth Department of Transportation v. Johnson (1994), Mateskovich v. Commonwealth, Department of Transportation (2000)
31 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 City of Hazleton v. City Council · Pa. Pub. Util. Com'n v. Proc. Gas Consum. · Fischer v. Department of Public Welfare · Commonwealth v. McFadden · Love v. Borough of Stroudsburg
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he Legislature has specifically addressed the discretion of the trial court to grant a supersedeas of a suspension order through 75 Pa.C.S. § 1550. Pursuant to Section 1550, review of a mandatory suspension by a trial court is limited to a determination of whether the aggrieved party is actually the person whose operating privilege is subject to suspension, unless it involves the disqualification of a commercial operating privilege ... In all other cases, the Legislature has provided for only a limited supersedeas of the suspension order until final determination by the trial court of whether the suspension has been imposed upon the proper person.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) Conviction of offense. — Upon a conviction by a court of competent jurisdiction for any offense which calls for mandatory suspension in accordance with section 1532 (relating to revocation or suspension of operating privilege), the court or the district attorney shall require the surrender of any driver’s license then held by the defendant and shall forward the driver’s license together with a record of the conviction to the department. The suspension or revocation shall be effective upon a date determined by the court or district attorney or upon the date of surrender of the license to the court or district attorney, whichever shall first occur.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“recognize [d] that a conviction, while generally finalized through imposition of a judgment of sentence, is also, as a practical matter, not final until appeals have been exhausted or the time for appeal has expired. However, given the procedural framework established by the Legislature, which requires the trial court and/ or District Attorney to compel surrender of the driver’s license, we conclude that the Legislature envisioned that the imposition of sentence constitutes a conviction for purposes of the mandatory suspension. Id. at 288 n.4.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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