Commonwealth v. Lee

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding that the registration policy is constitutional and not punitive
• stating recidivism rates of sexual offenders are 25 “sufficiently high to warrant careful record-keeping and continued supervision”
• defining obiter dictum as “[a] judicial comment made during, the course of delivering a judicial opinion, but one that is unnecessary to the decision in the case and therefore not precedential”
• defining obiter dictum judicial comment made during the course of delivering a judicial opinion, but one that is unnecessary to the decision in the case and therefore not (citation omitted
• defining dicta as “[a] judicial comment made during the course -3- J-S45012-14 of delivering a judicial opinion, but one that is unnecessary to the decision in the case and therefore not precedential.”
• observing in regard to adult sexual offenders that “[t]here is little question that the threat to public safety and the risk of recidivism among sex offenders is sufficiently high to warrant careful record- keeping and continued supervision.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

30 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Commonwealth v. Muniz, J., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-07-19· cited 899×
• Commonwealth v. Butler
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-10-31· cited 372×
• Commonwealth v. Lilley
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-07-21· cited 304×
• Wallace v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2009-04-30· cited 186×
• State v. Ferguson
  Ohio Supreme Court· 2008-10-01· cited 154×
• In the Interest of J.B.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-12-29· cited 152×
• Starkey v. Oklahoma Department of Corrections
  Supreme Court of Oklahoma· 2013-06-25· cited 125×
• Commonwealth v. Hollingshead
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2015-02-19· cited 104×
• Commonwealth v. Perez
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-07-09· cited 103×
• Commonwealth v. Leidig
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-09-24· cited 77×
• G.V. v. Department of Public Welfare
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-04-29· cited 77×
• J. Taylor v. The PSP of the Commonwealth of PA
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2016-01-12· cited 59×
• Com. v. Mickley, S.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2020-09-24· cited 45×
• Commonwealth v. Hardy
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-08-29· cited 38×
• Commonwealth v. Horning
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-07-11· cited 38×
• Fross v. County of Allegheny
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-05-25· cited 32×
• Com.. v. Moore, L.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-10-23· cited 29×
• A.S. v. Pennsylvania State Police
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-03-07· cited 26×
• Com. v. Haines, M.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-10-30· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Wilgus
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-03-26· cited 23×