Commonwealth v. DeLoach’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 state decisions

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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Although proceedings pursuant to municipal ordinance violations are civil in nature, where there is a provision in the ordinance that provides for imprisonment upon conviction or failure to pay a fine, they are treated as criminal proceedings and are governed by the Rules of Criminal Procedure. The person or persons charged with violating the ordinance for which imprisonment is available enjoys the same protections that are available to defendants in traditional criminal prosecutions....”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Hoffman · Commonwealth v. Spontarelli

2. “When property is held by tenancy by the entireties, that does not mean a husband and wife are to be treated as a single entity for all matters regarding the property. For example, our Supreme Court in Teslovich v. Johnson, 486 Pa. 622 , 406 A.2d 1374 (1979), held that the husband and the wife individually were each “owners” who were required to be given notice of a pending tax sale under the Real Estate Tax Sale Law because otherwise, their due process rights would be violated. Similar due process considerations are present here. Due process certainly would be violated here if they were not charged individually.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Glen Rock Borough v. Miller