Commonwealth v. Graham

How courts have described this case

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

• holding “the general rule in Pennsylvania is that in imposing a sentence[,] the court has discretion to determine whether to make it concurrent with or consecutive to other sentences then being imposed or other sentences previously imposed”
• stating appellant should not be entitled to “a volume discount for his crimes by having all sentences run concurrently”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

21 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Commonwealth v. Zirkle
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-12-18· cited 491×
• Commonwealth v. Tedford
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-11-19· cited 325×
• Commonwealth v. Hoag
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-09-27· cited 216×
• Commonwealth v. Marts
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-12-14· cited 208×
• Commonwealth v. Gonzalez-Dejusus
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2010-04-20· cited 164×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-11-17· cited 103×
• Metheny v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2000-07-24· cited 81×
• Scott v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2004-01-13· cited 48×
• Commonwealth v. Saranchak
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-11-22· cited 32×
• Commonwealth, Aplt v. Hackett, R.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-08-18· cited 27×
• Department of Corrections v. Pennsylvania State Corrections Officers Ass'n
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-01-20· cited 22×
• Com. v. Morrobel, E.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2024-03-01· cited 19×
• Hall v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation & Parole
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-06-11· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. Parmelee
  Lackawanna County Court of Common Pleas· 2005-06-30· cited 1×
• Commonwealth v. Speight, M., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2021-04-29
• Commonwealth v. Graham
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-12-01
• Commonwealth v. Dick
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-06-23
• Commonwealth v. Balsavage
  Berks County Court of Common Pleas· 2009-08-11
• Commonwealth v. Sponheimer
  Carbon County Court of Common Pleas· 2012-07-24
• Commonwealth v. Brice
  Delaware County Court of Common Pleas· 2010-09-21

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Furman v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-29· cited 5,066×
• Woodson v. North Carolina
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-02· cited 2,907×
• Commonwealth v. Zettlemoyer
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-12-30· cited 709×
• State v. Combs
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1991-12-18· cited 236×
• Commonwealth v. Peterkin
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-07-25· cited 215×
• Commonwealth v. Abu-Jamal
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-03-06· cited 159×
• Commonwealth v. Robinson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-10-08· cited 100×
• Commonwealth v. Appel
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-03-28· cited 62×
• Commonwealth v. Heidnik
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-03-07· cited 39×
• Commonwealth v. Button
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-08-03· cited 28×
• State v. Campbell
  Washington Supreme Court· 1989-03-23· cited 22×
• Whitney v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1961-09-06· cited 17×
• Elledge v. Graham
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1983-04-14· cited 12×