Commonwealth v. Williams

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that it is appropriate to vacate a sentence in its entirety where the correction of one portion of the original sentence may alter the trial court’s sentencing scheme as a whole
• stating that “if a correction by this Court may upset the sentencing scheme envisioned by the trial court, the better practice is to remand [for resentencing]”
• concurring that NFP sentences afford appellant on probation “an expectation of finality[—]one that would not have existed with respect to probationary sentences which, by their very nature, remain subject to modification[.]”
• stating that “a probation revocation court does not have the authority to re-sentence an offender on a final guilty-without-punishment sentence after the period for altering or modifying the sentence has expired.”
• holding it is better practice to vacate a sentence in its entirety where a correction by the Court of a part of the sentence may alter the sentencing scheme of the trial court
• “if a correction by this Court may upset the sentencing scheme envisioned by the trial court, the better practice is to remand [for resentencing]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Melvin
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-08-21· cited 419×
• Commonwealth v. Schutzues
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-09-10· cited 145×
• Commonwealth v. Tanner
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-02-15· cited 104×
• Raymond Bronowicz v. County of Allegheny
  Third Circuit· 2015-09-22· cited 46×
• Commonwealth v. James
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-06-05· cited 36×
• Commonwealth v. Mazzetti
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2010-11-18· cited 11×
• Com. v. Fisher, M.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2023-10-11· cited 5×
• Com. v. Orie Melvin, J.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-08-21

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Ahmad
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-11-18· cited 258×
• Commonwealth v. Holmes
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-10-16· cited 257×
• Commonwealth v. Silverman
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1971-03-18· cited 116×
• Commonwealth v. Quinlan
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-04-08· cited 107×
• Commonwealth v. Dobbs
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-08-29· cited 47×
• Commonwealth v. Rubright
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-05-02· cited 36×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-01-19· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Moody
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-01-29· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. Postell
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-04-07· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. Dasilva
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-02-28· cited 8×
• Commonwealth v. Coleman
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-11-09· cited 8×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-07-01· cited 8×