Commonwealth v. Vasquez

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the phrase, “if at the time of sentencing the defendant has been convicted of another drug trafficking offence,” contained in 18 Pa.C.S.A. § 7508(a)(3)(i
• holding that that a conviction in a multiple- count compl triggering the enhancement provisions of 18 Pa.C.S.A. § 7508
• considering whether a conviction within a multiple count complaint should be counted as a prior conviction such that the sentencing enhancement provision of 18 Pa.C.S.A. § 7508 would apply
• considering whether a conviction within a multiple count complaint should be counted as a prior conviction such that the sentencing enhancement provision of 18 Pa.C.S.A. § 7508 would apply
• rejecting the argument that the mandatory minimum sentence pursuant to 18 Pa.C.S.A. § 7508(a)(3)(i) applies only if the defendant has a prior drug trafficking conviction at the time he committed the offense
• Section 7508 makes no distinction between multiple convictions included in single criminal complaint as long as offenses are separate and distinct from each other

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

24 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Commonwealth v. Rush
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-10-01· cited 176×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-08-16· cited 135×
• Commonwealth v. Bradley
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-10-28· cited 105×
• Commonwealth v. Morris
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-10-01· cited 80×
• Commonwealth v. Kittrell
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-03-24· cited 55×
• Commonwealth v. Jarowecki
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-12-30· cited 40×
• Commonwealth v. Jarowecki
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-04-17· cited 38×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-03-12· cited 36×
• Merscorp, Inc. v. Del. Cnty.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-04-26· cited 34×
• Commonwealth v. Gehris
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-09-27· cited 31×
• Commonwealth v. Teeter
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-11-18· cited 18×
• Commonwealth v. Hlubin, M., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-05-31· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Bell
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-06-05· cited 15×
• In the Interest of: L.J.B Appeal of: A.A.R.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-12-28· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Boyd
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-12-14· cited 7×
• Commonwealth v. Shiffler
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-10-03· cited 6×
• MERSCORP v. Delaware Co., Aplts.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-04-26
• Commonwealth v. Cochran II, S., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2021-01-20
• Commonwealth v. Doyle
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-10-12
• Commonwealth v. Urbina-Nevarez
  Berks County Court of Common Pleas· 2009-02-27

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Deal v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1993-05-17· cited 701×
• United States v. Jose Casiano, A/K/A Jose Rivera Jose Casiano, United States of America v. Alfredo Dejesus
  Third Circuit· 1997-05-07· cited 105×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-12-29· cited 52×
• Commonwealth v. Plass
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-05-18· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Vasquez
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-03-03· cited 4×
• Commonwealth v. Plass
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-12-29· cited 2×