Commonwealth v. King

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that any “challenge to the legality of [a] sentence, which has expired and which bears no collateral civil or criminal consequences, is moot and will not be addressed by this Court”
• dismissing as moot a challenge to the legality of a sentence when the term of the sentence had expired

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Eckrote
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2010-10-29· cited 49×
• Commonwealth v. Schmohl
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-05-26· cited 37×
• Commonwealth v. Green
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2016-09-16· cited 21×
• Com. v. Gillins, R.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2023-08-18· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-06-30· cited 9×
• Com. v. Smith, C.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2016-09-16

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Anderson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-12-15· cited 84×
• Commonwealth v. Adams
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-01-31· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. Doria
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-10-08· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. Rohde
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-07-05· cited 27×
• Commonwealth v. Kelly
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-01-11· cited 23×
• Commonwealth v. Kozrad
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-10-25· cited 20×