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← 78 PACOMMW 29 - Commonwealth v. Lewis

Commonwealth v. Lewis’s Empirical Analysis

1983

Citation profile

4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
November 1984
most recently cited

4 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Commonwealth v. Jaffe · 67 Pa. Commw. 41 - Green v. Commonwealth

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

  1. “(c) No points after six months. — The department shall assign points to the record of any person within six months from the date of a conviction. Any points assigned after such six-month period shall be null and void.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “[t]o construe the six-month notice provision of section 1551 as applicable to discretionary suspensions imposed under section 1538(c) would produce a result which is absurd and unreasonable.”
    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.