Commonwealth v. Gause

How courts have described this case

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

• noting it is not enough for court to pay “token lip service” to sentencing guidelines simply as prerequisite to impose whatever sentence it may choose; departure sentence reasonable where particular facts differentiate case from typical case of same offense
• noting it is not enough for court to pay “token lip service” to sentencing guidelines simply as prerequisite to impose whatever sentence it may choose; departure sentence reasonable where particular facts differentiate case from typical case of same offense
• “The rape statute applies to a victim of any age.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Mouzon
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-12-19· cited 702×
• Commonwealth v. Rodda
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-01-07· cited 199×
• Commonwealth v. Shull
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2016-09-13· cited 117×
• Commonwealth v. Eby
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-10-04· cited 109×
• Commonwealth v. Walls
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-03-23· cited 69×
• Commonwealth v. Kleinicke
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-03-08· cited 68×
• Commonwealth v. Kitchen
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-12-18· cited 42×
• Commonwealth v. Andrews
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-10-05· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. Monahan
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-10-01· cited 34×
• Commonwealth v. Vega
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-05-27· cited 31×
• Commonwealth v. Whitmore
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-09-20· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Wagner
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-11-13· cited 27×
• Commonwealth v. Wilson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-04-16· cited 1×

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Royer
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-04-27· cited 83×
• Commonwealth v. Simpson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-05-27· cited 44×
• Commonwealth v. Vinson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-03-04· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. Chesson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-05-20· cited 29×
• Commonwealth v. Smart
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-10-04· cited 21×