Lauer v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 2013
8 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 Cooper v. Delaware Valley Medical Center · Commonwealth v. Hude · Plowman v. COM., DEPT. OF TRANSP. · Commonwealth v. Perruso · 160 Pa. Commw. 427 - Commonwealth, Department of Transportation, Bureau of Driver Licensing v. Hardy
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“§ 1532. Revocation or suspension of operating privilege * * * * (c) Suspension.—The department shall suspend the operating privilege of any person upon receiving a certified record of the person’s conviction of any offense involving the possession, sale, delivery, offering for sale, holding for sale or giving away of any controlled substance under the laws of the United States, this Commonwealth or any other state. (1) The period of suspension shall be as follows: (i) For a first offense, a period of six months from the date of suspension. (ii) For a second offense, a period of one year from the date of the suspension. (iii) For a third and any subsequent offense thereafter, a period of two years from the date of the suspension. (2) For the purposes of this subsection, the term “conviction” shall include any conviction or adjudication of delinquency for any of the offenses listed in paragraph (1), whether in this Commonwealth or any other Federal or state court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[A]ny person, not a registrant, who possesses, sells, delivers, offers for sale, holds for sale or gives away any controlled substance ... upon conviction for a violation of this act, shall have his or her operating privilege suspended ... When the Department of Transportation suspends the operating privilege of a person under this subsection, the duration of the suspension shall be as follows (emphasis added): (1) For a first offense, a period of ninety days from the date of suspension. (Emphasis added.) (2) For a second offense, a period of one year from the date of suspension. (Emphasis added.) (3) For a third offense, and any offense thereafter, a period of two years from the date of suspension. Any multiple suspensions imposed shall be served consecutively. (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“the fact that the circumstances on each separate occasion were similar and within a single week, does not require the conclusion that the three convictions arose from the same criminal act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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