Commonwealth v. Layne

How courts have described this case

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

• “An ‘illegal sentence’ is one that is in excess of the punishment prescribed by the relevant statutory provision or in some way contrary to the applicable statute”
• illegal sentence is one that is “in some way contrary to the applicable statute”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

12 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. McGhee
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2015-08-13· cited 38×
• Commonwealth v. Selavka
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2014-08-25· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Walters
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2017-12-04· cited 18×
• Commonwealth v. Layne
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1987-10-13· cited 9×
• Wolcott
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1992-04-29· cited 8×
• Goetzendanner v. Superintendent
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2008-04-10· cited 7×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1987-03-27· cited 5×
• Commonwealth v. Melo
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2006-03-06· cited 2×
• Commonwealth v. Lindberg
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2018-01-10· cited 1×
• Commonwealth v. Walters
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2018-04-12
• Commonwealth v. Evans
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2018-05-09
• Martin v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2023-05-22

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Hill v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1962-02-26· cited 2,416×
• United States v. Morgan
  Supreme Court· 1954-02-08· cited 1,436×
• Commonwealth v. Layne
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1982-05-17· cited 49×
• United States v. James Franklin Lewis
  Fourth Circuit· 1968-03-04· cited 41×
• Theodore Green v. United States
  First Circuit· 1960-01-20· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. Lemay
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1981-04-06· cited 3×
• United States v. Hairston
  S.D. Ohio· 1983-03-22· cited 2×