Commonwealth v. Pelfrey’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
January 2012
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Kansas Gas & Electric Co. v. Brock, Secretary of Labor, Et Al. · Sireci v. Florida · Gall v. Commonwealth · Dorton 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.
“that it is not required to recommend that all sentences be run all concurrently or all consecutively, but that it may recommend that some sentences be run concurrently and others consecutively.”
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.