Commonwealth v. Bentley

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that “jurisdiction goes to a court’s fundamental authority to entertain claims,” and finding that the trial court lacked authority to issue an order deciding the defendant’s post-trial motion beyond the timeframe allowed under Rule 720
• recognizing that “jurisdiction goes to a court’s fundamental authority to entertain claims,” and finding that the trial court lacked authority to issue an order deciding the defendant’s post- trial motion beyond the timeframe allowed under Rule 720
• considering an order a legality nullity where the trial court did not have jurisdiction to enter it
• failure to rule on post-sentence motion within prescribed period divested court of jurisdiction to render a decision at a later date
• failure to rule on a post-sentence motion within the prescribed period divested the court of jurisdiction to render a decision at a later date
• trial court could not grant appellant’s post sentence motion more than 120 days after filing, as it was divested of jurisdiction to do so

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Merolla
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-09-28· cited 38×
• Commonwealth v. Martinez
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2016-06-10· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Robinson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-10-14· cited 20×
• Com. v. Green, D.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2021-10-25· cited 8×
• Com. v. Albert, D.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2026-01-08

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Grant
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-12-31· cited 1,205×
• Commonwealth v. Bomar
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-05-30· cited 478×
• Commonwealth v. Braykovich
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-08-08· cited 132×
• Commonwealth v. Khalil
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-08-02· cited 115×
• Commonwealth v. Hudson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-03-18· cited 68×
• Commonwealth v. Pearson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-10-21· cited 68×
• Commonwealth v. Kohan
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-05-23· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. Santone
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-08-03· cited 27×
• K-B Building Co. v. Hermara Associates, Inc.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-04-14· cited 9×