Brown v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently October 2001
14 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 Morrissey v. Brewer · Moody v. Daggett · Commonwealth ex rel. Rambeau v. Rundle · Commonwealth v. Tinson · Canonsburg General Hospital v. Department of Health
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A parole violator’s loss of liberty does not occur until the parolee is taken into custody under a parole violator’s warrant. Moody v. Daggett, 429 U.S. 78 , 97 S.Ct. 274 , 50 L.Ed. 2d 236 (1976). Where a parolee is confined pursuant to the warrant of another jurisdiction, county or out of state, then the parolee’s liberty has not been revoked by action of the Board. Where a parole violator is arrested on a Board’s warrant but the violator is beyond the jurisdiction of the Board, as in the instant case, the Board cannot be penalized for failure to exercise its jurisdiction. The Board has no responsibility to or for the violator until it has juris diction over Mm in a state correctional facility. Harris v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole, 38 Pa. Commonwealth Ct. 391 , 393 A.2d 510 (1978). This does not constitute unequal protection of the laws; rather, the procedures recognize the jurisdictional prerogatives of all those governmental units who may be interested in the parole violator without prejudicing the rights of the violator. The violator has no constitutional right to compel different units of government to act upon his transgressions when they lack jurisdiction to do so. (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Emmi v. Commonwealth“While the matter of granting continuances is normally a discretionary act of the adjudicatory body which will not be disturbed in the absence of an abuse of that discretion, we believe that the matter of representation by counsel at a parole hearing is of such critical importance that the Board proceeds at its peril when it conducts a hearing where the person entitled to counsel requests counsel but is not represented at the hearing.”
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.