Commonwealth v. Archer’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably 2007 Pa. Super. 230 - Commonwealth v. Robinson (2007), 2006 Pa. Super. 62 - Commonwealth v. Shugars (2006)
49 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 Commonwealth v. Tuladziecki · Millili v. Commonwealth, Department of Transportation, Bureau of Driver Licensing · Bank of New York v. Continental Airlines, Inc. · Commonwealth v. Lord · Kemmerer v. Commonwealth, Department of Transportation, Bureau of Driver Licensing
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Discretion is abused when the course pursued [by the trial court] represents not merely an error of judgment, but where the judgment is manifestly unreasonable or where the law is not applied or where the record shows that the action is a result of partiality, prejudice, bias or ill will.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]his court made a determination independent from Judge Temin that the defendants were not amenable to treatment within the juvenile justice system. This Court had access to most of the material set forth in Judge Temin’s Opinions including both defendants’ juvenile records; the notes of testimony from the decertification hearing before Judge Temin (Mr. Pennington’s juvenile record and the notes from his decertifi-cation were actually made part of the sentencing record in this matter).; all of the statements of both defendants and the codefendants given prior to trial and during the trial and other relevant factors considered by Judge Temin. This court also had the benefit of the presen-tence and mental evaluations conducted on both defendants for the purposes, of sentencing. Regarding Mr. Pennington, the court considered all of the factors as set forth by Judge Temin in the aforementioned Opinion. Of particular note was Mr. Pennington’s discharge from the juvenile system on August 22, 1994, seven days before he committed the offense. The presentence report confirms that Mr. Pennington was using a significant amount of marijuana the night before the incident. This was after the defendant had the opportunity to work within the juvenile justice system and was recently discharged from its care. Despite the efforts of the juvenile justice system according to all of these reports, this defendant was using drugs and committed this offense after recent discharge. The mental health ”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“An improper calculation of the offense gravity score affects the outcome of the sentencing recommendations, resulting in an improper recommendation, thereby compromising the fundamental norms which underlie the sentencing process. We thus hold that any misapplication of the Sentencing Guidelines constitutes a challenge to the discretionary aspects of sentence. A claim that the sentencing court misapplied the Guidelines presents a substantial question.”
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.