Commonwealth, Aplt. v. Fields, R.’s Empirical Analysis
2014
Citation profile
11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
April 2019
most recently cited
11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Dodd v. United States · Commonwealth v. Shiffler · Commonwealth v. Booth · Commonwealth v. McClintic · Oliver v. City of Pittsburgh
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any person who is convicted in any court of this Commonwealth of a crime of violence shall, if at the time of the commission of the current offense the person had previously been convicted of a crime of violence, be sentenced to a minimum sentence of at least ten years of total confinement, notwithstanding any other provision of this title or other statute to the contrary.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he sentence enhancement is required so long as the defendant meets two prerequisites: he previously committed a crime of violence, and his current offense is a crime of violence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“the straightforward meaning of such provisions should be adhered to absent an ambiguity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.