Commonwealth v. Johnson

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that, an allegation that a trial court misapplied sentencing guidelines in computing prior record score presents a substantial question[]
• stating that, an allegation that a trial court misapplied sentencing guidelines in computing prior record score presents a substantial question
• holding claim that sentencing court miscalculated prior record score and misapplied sentencing guidelines presents substantial question
• explaining that the appellant presented a substantial question in claiming that the sentencing court misapplied the sentencing guidelines by miscalculating the PRS
• finding a substantial question was -3- J-S41005-16 presented where the defendant claimed the sentencing court erroneously calculated his prior record score and, thus, misapplied the sentencing guidelines
• “A challenge to the calculation of the Sentencing Guidelines raises a question of the discretionary aspects of a defendant’s sentence.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Anderson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-08-07· cited 305×
• Commonwealth v. McNabb
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-02-12· cited 189×
• Commonwealth v. Burns
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-12-20· cited 148×
• Commonwealth v. Bullock
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-08-31· cited 148×
• Commonwealth v. O'Bidos
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-04-23· cited 118×
• Com. v. Clemat, P.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-09-04· cited 75×
• Commonwealth v. Spenny
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2015-11-17· cited 61×
• Commonwealth v. Messmer
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-12-01· cited 36×
• Commonwealth v. Whitmore
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-09-20· cited 28×
• Com. v. Peck, M., Jr.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-01-08· cited 22×
• Commonwealth v. Keiper
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-11-21· cited 21×
• Commonwealth v. Wise
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-03-22· cited 4×
• Com. v. Reyes, T.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2025-12-22· cited 1×
• Com. v. Myers, T.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2024-09-17

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Tuladziecki
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-03-10· cited 739×
• Commonwealth v. Archer
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-12-16· cited 183×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-03-29· cited 170×
• Commonwealth v. Dalberto
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-07-19· cited 152×
• Commonwealth v. Luktisch
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-06-25· cited 99×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-10-16· cited 60×
• Commonwealth v. Medley
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-01-27· cited 51×