Commonwealth v. Cain

How courts have described this case

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

• finding flat sentence of one year imprisonment for criminal contempt of court illegal because court did not specify any minimum sentence
• vacating a flat sentence of one year imprisonment for direct criminal contempt where no minimum sentence was imposed
• amending flat sentence to include minimum term of incarceration equal to one-half maximum under circumstances where sentencing court clearly intended to impose maximum sentence
• amending flat sentence to include minimum term of incarceration equal to one-half maximum under circumstances where sentencing court clearly intended to impose maximum sentence
• stating, unless otherwise specified in the Sentencing Code, flat sentence of confinement or one that fails to set -8- J-S01032-15 minimum term violates Section 9756 of sentencing code
• “Cain’s sentence is technically illegal because the court imposed a flat one year of imprisonment without specifying any minimum sentence.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• John William Dunn v. Raymond J. Colleran
  Third Circuit· 2001-04-20· cited 90×
• Commonwealth v. Postie
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2015-02-17· cited 87×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-05-31· cited 40×
• Commonwealth v. Basinger
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-10-21· cited 39×
• Commonwealth v. Duda
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-08-25· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. Barzyk
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-04-04· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. Milhomme
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-07-21· cited 25×
• Commonwealth v. Stein
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-02-07· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. Edwards
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-12-31· cited 8×
• In Re: Davis, B., Appeal of: Davis, B.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2023-08-18· cited 7×
• In the Int. of: Q.R., Appeal of: H.R.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-11-20· cited 4×
• Com. v. Stultz, J.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2015-04-28
• Arturo Reyes v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 2006-03-30

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Britton
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-02-14· cited 26×
• Jojola v. New Mexico ex rel. Human Services Department
  Supreme Court· 1983-10-03· cited 26×
• Commonwealth v. Falkenhan
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-11-15· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Britton
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-03-31· cited 18×
• Commonwealth v. Pastorkovic
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-12-21· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Aeschbacher
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-04-11· cited 13×