Commonwealth v. Kelly

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that although sentences for attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder should have merged, case need not be remanded for resentencing since sentence that this Court vacated was imposed concurrently
• stating that “[t]he [trial] court plainly misspoke when it stated that [a]ppellant could be guilty of conspiracy to commit attempted murder, since the crime is actually conspiracy to commit murder.”
• where same sentence was imposed for merged offense, “concurrent nature of the sentences herein renders any vacatur academic”
• sentence for conspiracy to commit attempted murder and attempted murder should have merged
• sentence for conspiracy and attempted murder should have merged
• “In Commonwealth v. Riley, 811 A.2d 610 (Pa.Super.2002

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

4 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Tobin
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-04-01· cited 140×
• Com. v. Rosario, K.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2021-03-23· cited 42×
• Com. v. Kiley, S.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-08-09· cited 3×
• Commonwealth v. King, J., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2020-07-21

Cites

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

• Commonwealth v. Robinson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-08-02· cited 305×
• Commonwealth v. Hopkins
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-05-20· cited 268×
• Commonwealth v. Holmes
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-10-16· cited 257×
• Commonwealth v. Baldwin
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-12-28· cited 252×
• Commonwealth v. Anderson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-10-26· cited 251×
• Commonwealth v. Beasley
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-12-09· cited 214×
• Commonwealth v. Walker
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-07-06· cited 170×
• Commonwealth v. Springer
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-12-01· cited 170×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-07-25· cited 131×
• Commonwealth v. Norris
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-06-01· cited 126×
• Commonwealth v. Frisbie
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-12-18· cited 95×
• Commonwealth v. Scarborough
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-09-22· cited 85×
• Commonwealth v. Tizer
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-10-10· cited 81×
• Commonwealth v. Wilson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-04-27· cited 64×
• Commonwealth v. Sullens
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-11-19· cited 60×
• Commonwealth v. Jacobs
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-02-21· cited 60×
• Commonwealth v. Lomax
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2010-11-18· cited 56×
• Commonwealth v. Wade
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-11-18· cited 51×
• Commonwealth v. Campbell
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-01-31· cited 47×
• Commonwealth v. Tisdale
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-03-31· cited 44×