Commonwealth v. Colon’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently March 2020
22 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 Gregory v. Frontier Materials, Inc. · Texas v. New Mexico · Commonwealth v. Tuladziecki · In re the Primary Election of May 21, 1991 · Greenwood Trust Co. v. Gilbert
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) A direct victim. (2) A parent or legal guardian of a child who is a direct victim, except when the parent or legal guardian of the child is the alleged offender. (3) A minor child who is a material witness to any of the following crimes and offenses under 18 Pa. C.S. (relating to crimes and offenses) committed or attempted against a member of the child’s family: Chapter 25 (relating to criminal homicide). Section 2702 (relating to aggravated assault). Section 3121 (relating to rape). (4) A family member of a homicide victim, including stepbrothers or stepsisters, stepchildren, stepparents or a fiance, one of whom is to be identified to receive communication as provided for in this act, except where the family member is the alleged offender.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(a) General Rule. — Upon conviction for any crime wherein property has been stolen, converted or otherwise unlawfully obtained, or its value substantially decreased as a result of the crime, or where the victim suffered personal injury directly resulting from the crime, the offender shall be sentenced to make restitution in addition to the punishment prescribed therefore. [[Image here]] (b) Mandatory restitution,— (1) The court shall order full restitution. (i) Regardless of the current financial resources of the defendant, so as to provide the victim with the fullest compensation for the loss.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“aimed at rehabilitating and reintegrating a law breaker into society as a law-abiding citizen . . . [and] is deemed a constructive alternative to imprisonment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re JE
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.