Commonwealth v. Rivera

How courts have described this case

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

• finding whether an appellant received the sentence he bargained for was a highly relevant factor in the Flores-Ortega inquiry
• “Our cases clearly state that a criminal defendant cannot agree to an illegal sentence, so the fact that the illegality was a term of his plea bargain is of no legal significance.”
• “Our cases clearly state that a criminal defendant cannot agree to an illegal sentence, so the fact that the illegality was a term of his plea bargain is of no legal significance.”
• “[o]ur cases clearly state that a criminal defendant cannot agree to an illegal sentence, so the fact that the illegality was a term of his plea bargain is of no legal significance”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Root
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-02-06· cited 32×
• Com. v. Conklin, S.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2022-05-18· cited 30×
• Com. v. Warunek, J.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2022-07-12· cited 23×
• Com. v. Robinson, T.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2022-06-27· cited 19×
• Com. v. Muhammed, Y.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-09-30· cited 1×
• Commonwealth, Aplt. v. Ford, C.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-09-26

Cites

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

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Alleyne v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2013-06-17· cited 5,868×
• Commonwealth v. Turner
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-07-27· cited 4,184×
• Commonwealth v. Finley
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-10-31· cited 4,104×
• Roe v. Flores-Ortega
  Supreme Court· 2000-02-23· cited 2,810×
• Commonwealth v. Pierce
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-06-09· cited 2,071×
• Commonwealth v. Treiber, S., Aplt
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2015-08-17· cited 629×
• Commonwealth v. Newman
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-08-20· cited 623×
• Commonwealth v. Washington, T., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2016-07-19· cited 520×
• Commonwealth v. Lantzy
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-07-07· cited 472×
• Commonwealth v. Hickman
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-05-15· cited 455×
• Commonwealth v. Watley
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-11-25· cited 414×
• Commonwealth, Aplt. v. Hopkins, K.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2015-06-15· cited 395×
• Commonwealth v. Lincoln
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-07-09· cited 342×
• Commonwealth v. Valentine
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-10-03· cited 340×
• Commonwealth v. Wolfe
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-12-24· cited 273×
• Commonwealth v. Vargas
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-12-31· cited 219×
• Commonwealth v. Lippert
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-02-13· cited 195×
• Commonwealth v. Liston
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-08-17· cited 182×
• Commonwealth v. Fennell
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-11-21· cited 148×