Commonwealth v. Holiday

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that the sentencing guidelines “have no binding effect, create no presumption in sentencing, and do not predominate over other sentencing factors” (citation omitted)
• stating that a claim that the sentencing court imposed a sentence outside of the guidelines, without specifying sufficient reasons, presents a substantial question
• stating that Appellant was born in Germany but has not lived there since he was a child
• stating that “[a] claim that the sentencing court imposed a sentence outside of the guidelines without specifying sufficient reasons presents a substantial question for our review.”
• stating that “[a] claim that the sentencing court imposed a sentence outside of the guidelines without specifying sufficient reasons presents a substantial question for our review.”
• stating that “[a] claim that the sentencing court imposed a sentence outside of the guidelines without specifying sufficient reasons presents a substantial question for our review.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

2 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Coulverson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-11-29· cited 310×
• Commonwealth v. Sheller
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-11-10· cited 231×

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Walls
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-07-17· cited 918×
• Commonwealth v. Shugars
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-03-24· cited 480×
• Commonwealth v. Goggins
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-03-09· cited 383×
• Commonwealth v. Rodda
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-01-07· cited 199×
• Commonwealth v. Gould
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-12-01· cited 172×
• Commonwealth v. Kimbrough
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-04-19· cited 121×
• Commonwealth v. Ward
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-01-31· cited 96×
• Commonwealth v. Eline
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-12-31· cited 56×
• Commonwealth v. Slotcavage
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-12-13· cited 22×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-06-09· cited 22×
• Commonwealth v. Hardy
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-12-27· cited 18×
• Harris v. Toys\ R\ Us-Penn, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-03-10· cited 15×
• Com. v. Williamson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-04-04· cited 7×
• Commonwealth v. Coleman
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-05-24· cited 1×