Commonwealth v. Smith

How courts have described this case

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

• tying 9 CR 73 =2020 : ! the charge for overweight vehicle to the amount of excess weight was “quite sensible”
• the Legislature’s decision to graduate and increase the amount of the fines “was not irrational or unreasonable, but on the contrary was quite sensible”
• the Legislature’s decision to graduate and increase the amount of the fines “was not irrational or unreasonable, but on the contrary was quite sensible”
• graduated fines for overweight vehicles not irrational or unreasonable, and therefore not excessive

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Wm. Penn Parking Garage, Inc. v. City of Pittsburgh
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-10-03· cited 640×
• Commonwealth v. Eisenberg, M., Aplt
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-08-19· cited 206×
• Commonwealth v. McKenna
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-01-26· cited 167×
• Commonwealth v. Cornish
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-02-28· cited 52×
• Commonwealth v. Church
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-03-10· cited 48×
• Philadelphia Facilities Management Corp. v. Biester
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-07-08· cited 23×
• KAUFFMAN v. Osser
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1970-11-12· cited 21×
• State v. Goffe
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 1996-05-28· cited 20×
• Paxon Maymar, Inc. v. Commonwealth
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-11-27· cited 19×
• State v. Krahwinkel
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 2002-12-23· cited 18×
• Commonwealth v. Gipple
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-09-15· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. Dunn
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-04-04· cited 10×
• State v. Gibson
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 1982-09-23· cited 9×
• Commonwealth v. Heggenstaller
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-08-08· cited 8×
• Com. v. Ishankulov, A.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2022-04-20· cited 8×
• Commonwealth v. Tirpak
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-10-26· cited 6×
• Commonwealth v. Mercer
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-01-22· cited 6×
• State v. Geise
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 2002-12-23· cited 5×
• Austin v. Commonwealth
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-03-24· cited 5×
• Commonwealth v. Nugent
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-06-10· cited 4×

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Bell Appeal
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1959-07-02· cited 101×
• Robinson Township School District v. Houghton
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1956-12-29· cited 56×
• Commonwealth v. Dollar Savings Bank
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1917-06-30· cited 42×
• Commonwealth v. Bristow
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1958-01-21· cited 22×
• Commonwealth v. Hanzlik
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1960-01-11· cited 9×