Com. v. Merced, A.

How courts have described this case

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

• “The matter of whether the trial court possesses the authority to impose a particular sentence is a matter of legality.” (cleaned up)
• “If no statutory authorization exists for a particular sentence, that sentence is illegal and subject to correction. An illegal sentence must be vacated.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

4 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Com. v. Stevens, C.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2024-08-08· cited 1×
• Com. v. Ransom, R
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2024-12-12
• Com. v. Vializ-Rios, J.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2025-03-28
• Com. v. Steager, K.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2026-04-07

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Coulverson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-11-29· cited 310×
• Com. v. Watson, E.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2020-02-10· cited 165×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-03-18· cited 155×
• Commonwealth v. Leverette
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-11-17· cited 97×
• Lehman v. Pennsylvania State Police
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-12-30· cited 94×
• Commonwealth v. Dobbs
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-08-29· cited 47×
• Commonwealth, Aplt. v. Rose, S.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2015-11-18· cited 38×
• Commonwealth v. Cianci
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2015-12-23· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. Dennis
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-05-22· cited 17×