Commonwealth v. Serrano

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “whenever a judge imposes a more severe sentence upon a defendant [following remand] ... the reasons for doing so must affirmatively appear [on the record, in] order to overcome the presumption of vindictiveness.”
• stating that “[i]t is essential that the court maintain the ability to incarcerate persons for whom intermediate punishment is no longer a viable means of rehabilitation”
• emphasizing differences between probation and intermediate punishment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

12 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Fowler
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-07-23· cited 444×
• Commonwealth v. Robinson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-08-02· cited 305×
• Commonwealth v. Infante
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-03-06· cited 262×
• Commonwealth v. Barnes
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-07-10· cited 165×
• Commonwealth v. Hernandez
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-08-31· cited 98×
• Commonwealth v. Ali
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-10-09· cited 63×
• Commonwealth v. Cook
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-11-21· cited 62×
• Commonwealth v. Wegley
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-08-06· cited 34×
• Com. v. Conklin, S.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2022-05-18· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. Kisner
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-08-16· cited 20×
• State v. Higgenbottom
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2001-02-12· cited 5×
• Commonwealth v. Dowling
  Delaware County Court of Common Pleas· 2006-03-06

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• North Carolina v. Pearce
  Supreme Court· 1969-06-23· cited 7,763×
• Commonwealth v. Phillips
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-01-07· cited 41×
• Commonwealth v. Philipp
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-04-14· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. Campion
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-02-29· cited 21×