Commonwealth v. Mountain’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently December 2022
15 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 Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Paul v. Davis · Nixon v. Administrator of General Services · Blystone v. Pennsylvania · Alaska v. United States
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Moreover, “[p]ersons found to have committed [the offenses set forth at § 9793(b)] have a reduced expectation of privacy because of the public’s interest in. public safety and the effective operation of government.” Registration requirements carry only a slight burden in comparison with other regulatory measures imposed by the Commonwealth. Balancing the unobtrusive registration provision of Megan’s Law with the Commonwealth’s compelling interest in public safety, we find the momentary inconvenience of disclosing the above-described information to police is greatly outweighed by the need to ensure public safety.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A person convicted of any of the offenses set forth in subsection (b) shall be required to register a current address with the Pennsylvania State Police upon release from incarceration, upon parole from a State or county correctional institution, upon the commencement of a sentence of intermediate punishment or probation or where the offender is under the supervision of the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole at the time of enactment of this section, within 30 days of the date of enactment of this section.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The registration provisions of Megan's Law is a non punitive measure with only the very slightest inconvenience to the defendant and the overwhelming policy objective of assuring public safety.”
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.