Commonwealth v. O'Brien

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding “[t]he words ‘not less than’ used in [Section 9718] unambiguously connote a minimum term of imprisonment”
• “The words ‘not less than’ used in the statute unambiguously connote a minimum term of imprisonment. It strains all notions of common sense to suggest that ‘not less than’ can reasonably be interpreted as meaning ‘maximum.’”
• “The words ‘not less than’ used in the statute unambiguously connote a minimum term of imprisonment. It strains all notions of common sense to suggest that ‘not less than’ can reasonably be interpreted as meaning ‘maximum’”
• “The words ‘not less than’ used in the statute unambiguously connote a minimum term of imprisonment. It strains all notions of common sense to suggest that ‘not less than’ can reasonably be interpreted as meaning ‘maximum’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Fuller
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-07-27· cited 29×
• Commonwealth v. Anderson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-07-15· cited 21×
• Commonwealth v. Everett
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-01-09· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Madeira
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-09-14· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Gautieri
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-02-01· cited 7×
• Commonwealth v. Kunselman
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-05-27· cited 3×
• Com. v. Lee, D.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2026-04-23· cited 2×
• Commonwealth v. Eid, K., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2021-04-29

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• McMillan v. Pennsylvania
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-19· cited 1,908×
• Commonwealth v. Wright
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-06-10· cited 177×
• Commonwealth v. Glover
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1959-11-25· cited 83×
• Commonwealth v. Boerner
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-10-03· cited 65×
• Commonwealth v. Cooke
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-04-04· cited 52×
• Commonwealth v. Pemberth
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-03-01· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. Adams
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-01-31· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. Nelson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-12-13· cited 31×
• Commonwealth v. Allen
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-06-27· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. Sayko
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-02-20· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. Wildermuth
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-11-22· cited 15×