Commonwealth v. Anderson

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that “unless the Court directly and specifically asks the defendant whether he or she chooses to speak, no right of allocution has been effectively granted.”
• holding defendant has right to allocution at resentencing and remanding where court did not afford defendant that opportunity
• stating that “[w]hen a judgment has been vacated it is entirely destroyed and the rights of the parties are left as though no judgment has been entered”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Jacobs
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-05-01· cited 86×
• Commonwealth v. Hague
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-12-31· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. Barzyk
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-04-04· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. Newton
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-04-26· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Tigney
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-04-19· cited 6×

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• United States v. Walter Barnes
  Seventh Circuit· 1991-11-19· cited 125×
• Commonwealth v. Knighton
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-05-30· cited 60×
• Commonwealth v. Thomas
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-02-01· cited 52×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-05-10· cited 18×
• Higbee Estate
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1953-01-05· cited 17×
• Rufo v. Bastian-Blessing Co.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1966-03-22· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Melvin
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-04-02· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. Clark
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-07-03· cited 9×
• Malicia v. Proietta Catering & Cocktail Lounge, Inc.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-10-05· cited 7×