Commonwealth v. Sheridan

How courts have described this case

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

• Sentencing Guidelines were enacted to provide a guide to the courts; they do not preclude appropriate exercise of judicial discretion
• upholding sentence which fell below the sentence recommended in the Sentencing Guidelines where the sentencing court had relied, in part, upon the fact that the defendant “had restricted intelligence with an extremely weak ego structure”
• upholding sentence which fell below the sentence recommended in the Sentencing Guidelines where the sentencing court had relied, in part, upon the fact that the defendant \had restricted intelligence with an extremely weak ego structure\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

2 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Ennis
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-05-16· cited 33×
• Fross v. County of Allegheny
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-05-25· cited 32×

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Riggins
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-08-17· cited 471×
• Commonwealth v. Martin
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-01-29· cited 246×
• Commonwealth v. Drumgoole
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-03-08· cited 70×
• Commonwealth v. Green
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-07-02· cited 49×
• Commonwealth v. Edrington
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-07-03· cited 46×
• Commonwealth v. Knepp
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-12-10· cited 39×
• Commonwealth v. Hutchinson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-07-05· cited 17×