Commonwealth v. Infante

How courts have described this case

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

• noting this Court’s “preference for deferral of VOP sentencing until the final outcome of any new criminal charges”
• “the scope of review in an appeal following a sentence imposed after . . . revocation is limited to the validity of the revocation proceedings and the legality of the sentence imposed following revocation”
• “A probation violation is established whenever it is shown that the conduct of the probationer indicates the probation has proven to have been an ineffective vehicle to accomplish rehabilitation and not sufficient to deter against future antisocial conduct.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Cartrette
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-12-24· cited 1,101×
• Commonwealth v. Rigg
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-01-27· cited 378×
• Commonwealth v. Ortega
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2010-05-17· cited 93×
• Commonwealth v. Allshouse
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-03-19· cited 81×
• Commonwealth v. MacGregor
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-11-21· cited 67×
• Commonwealth v. Mazzetti
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-06-04· cited 40×
• Com. v. Giliam, C.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2020-06-03· cited 39×
• Commonwealth v. Moriarty
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-03-08· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Mazzetti
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2010-11-18· cited 11×
• In re Nomination Petition of Lefkowitz
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-03-30· cited 3×
• Commonwealth v. Foster, D., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-08-20
• Commonwealth v. Mayfield, D.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2021-03-25
• Commonwealth, Aplt. v. Koger, C.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2023-05-16
• Com. v. Fitzgerald, S.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2025-08-12

Cites

22 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Commonwealth v. Sierra
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-05-15· cited 756×
• Commonwealth v. Kates
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-05-08· cited 232×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-03-29· cited 170×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-12-29· cited 93×
• Commonwealth v. Ware
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-07-09· cited 88×
• Commonwealth v. Sims
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-03-05· cited 70×
• Commonwealth v. Duff
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1964-05-27· cited 65×
• Wright v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1982-10-20· cited 49×
• Commonwealth v. Duff
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1963-07-05· cited 47×
• Commonwealth v. Mallon
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-06-15· cited 44×
• Commonwealth v. Meyer
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1951-07-19· cited 41×
• Commonwealth v. Gilmore
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-10-30· cited 36×
• Commonwealth v. Burrell
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-03-10· cited 29×
• Smith v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-08-19· cited 27×
• Commonwealth v. Bossche
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-01-20· cited 20×
• Demchak v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1977-04-07· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. Royster
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-04-12· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. Martin
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-12-29· cited 14×
• State v. Ballensky
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 1998-11-19· cited 11×
• Bell v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 12th Dist. (Tyler)· 1983-09-06· cited 11×