Commonwealth v. Flowers

How courts have described this case

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

• ruling that claim that revocation court failed to order a new PSI or state reasons why one was unnecessary raised a substantial question
• holding that an allegation that the trial court imposed a sentence without considering the requisite statutory factors or stating adequate reasons for dispensing with a pre-sentence report raises a substantial question
• holding that an appellant’s allegation that the trial court imposed sentence “without considering the requisite statutory factors or stating adequate reasons for dispensing with a pre-sentence report” raised a substantial question.
• concluding that the claim that the sentencing court imposed the sentence without considering the statutory factors or stating adequate reasons on the record for dispensing with a PSI was a substantial question
• explaining that a psychological or psychiatric evaluation is optional and the trial court need only request a psychological or psychiatric report \if desirable\
• explaining that a psychiatric evaluation is optional and constitutes only one distinct component of a pre-sentence investigation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Cartrette
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-12-24· cited 1,101×
• Commonwealth v. Ventura
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-05-26· cited 584×
• Commonwealth v. Carrillo-Diaz
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-04-09· cited 169×
• Commonwealth v. Luketic
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-05-16· cited 146×
• Commonwealth v. Simmons
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-11-30· cited 128×
• Commonwealth v. Finnecy
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2016-02-18· cited 103×
• Commonwealth v. Best
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2015-07-16· cited 102×
• Commonwealth v. Kelly
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-12-02· cited 98×
• Commonwealth v. Tejada
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-04-26· cited 66×
• Com. v. Henck, A.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2025-07-24

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Goggins
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-03-09· cited 383×
• Commonwealth v. Martin
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-01-29· cited 246×
• Commonwealth v. Hoch
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-10-23· cited 180×
• Commonwealth v. Fiascki
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-10-24· cited 56×
• Commonwealth v. Monahan
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-10-01· cited 34×
• Commonwealth v. Carter
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-12-12· cited 23×
• Commonwealth v. Ousley
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-04-18· cited 23×