Commonwealth v. Ali

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that “enhancements only direct a sentencing court to consider a different range of potential minimum sentences, while preserving a trial court’s discretion to fashion an individual sentence.”
• addressing a youth enhancement and finding “offender” to mean the primary actor of the crime, not an accomplice
• stating sentence enhancements do not bind court to impose particular sentence or compel court to sentence within specified guideline range; guidelines are advisory only, even though they contain word “shall”; enhanced guidelines do not fall under Alleyne holding
• “[A]s section 9738 makes clear, before victim impact statements may be admitted at a sentencing hearing, there first must be an identifiable victim of the crime for which the defendant was convicted.”
• “[A]s section 9738 makes clear, before victim impact statements may be admitted at a sentencing hearing, there first must be an identifiable victim of the crime for which the defendant was convicted.”
• “By their very character, sentencing enhancements do not share the attributes of a mandatory minimum sentence that the Supreme Court held to be elements of the offense that must be submitted to a jury.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

4 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Com. of Pa. v. King
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-03-19· cited 68×
• Commonwealth v. Ali
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-10-09· cited 63×
• Commonwealth, Aplt. v. Ali, R.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2016-11-22· cited 36×
• 2303 Bainbridge, LLC. v. Steel River Bldg Systems
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2020-09-03· cited 9×

Cites

38 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Apprendi v. New Jersey
  Supreme Court· 2000-06-26· cited 28,372×
• Alleyne v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2013-06-17· cited 5,868×
• Payne v. Tennessee
  Supreme Court· 1991-09-13· cited 3,458×
• Harris v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2002-06-24· cited 1,506×
• Commonwealth v. Miller
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-09-26· cited 1,088×
• Commonwealth v. Story
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-01-26· cited 730×
• Commonwealth v. Griffin
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-06-24· cited 420×
• Commonwealth v. Watley
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-11-25· cited 414×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-08-21· cited 299×
• Commonwealth v. Rhoades
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2010-11-12· cited 279×
• Commonwealth v. Flor
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2010-07-22· cited 148×
• Commonwealth v. BOROVICHKA
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-04-27· cited 138×
• Commonwealth v. Lawrence
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-08-27· cited 136×
• Commonwealth v. Weakley
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-04-17· cited 131×
• Commonwealth v. Akbar
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-04-30· cited 131×
• Commonwealth v. Bethea
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-10-28· cited 119×
• Commonwealth v. Dupre
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-01-11· cited 105×
• Commonwealth v. Puksar
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-11-01· cited 98×
• Commonwealth v. Rivera
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-07-03· cited 89×
• Commonwealth v. Drummond
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-04-25· cited 82×