Commonwealth v. Lyons

How courts have described this case

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

• a second offense of driving while operating privileges are under suspension was intended by the legislature to be a summary offense rather than a misdemeanor
• a second offense of driving while operating privileges are under suspension was intended by the legislature to be a summary offense rather than a misdemeanor
• “Although section 6503 establishes a more severe penalty to be imposed than does section 1543(a), it makes no attempt to classify a second offense as a misdemeanor”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

9 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Walczak
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-03-14· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Soboleski
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-12-17· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Sperry
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-07-02· cited 8×
• Commonwealth v. Bernal
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-01-07· cited 6×
• Commonwealth v. Schmehl
  Berks County Court of Common Pleas· 1991-02-07
• Commonwealth v. Martyn
  Berks County Court of Common Pleas· 1991-07-02
• Commonwealth v. Albright
  Cumberland County Court of Common Pleas· 1990-12-17
• Commonwealth v. Butt
  Berks County Court of Common Pleas· 1990-10-25
• Commonwealth v. Eddinger
  Berks County Court of Common Pleas· 1990-10-24

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Grazier
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-10-05· cited 50×
• Commonwealth v. Stewart
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-07-13· cited 34×
• In the Interest of R.R.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-07-22· cited 25×