Commonwealth v. Silay’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Anderson · 420 Pa. Super. 311 - Commonwealth v. Cottam · 391 Pa. Super. 418 - Commonwealth v. Pigg · 452 Pa. Super. 488 - Commonwealth v. Dobbs · 346 Pa. Super. 470 - Commonwealth v. Kozrad
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The operative inquiry is whether the crimes involved are greater and lesser included offenses, i.e., whether the elements of the lesser included offense are necessary subcomponents but not a sufficient component of elements of another crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“that in all criminal cases, the same facts may support multiple convictions and separate sentences for each conviction except in cases where the offenses are greater and lesser included offenses.”
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.