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.

• providing defendant is entitled to jury trial if sentence for criminal contempt under Section 4132(3), summary offense, exceeds six months
• vacating appellant’s flat sentence of five months and twenty-nine days for direct criminal contempt where no minimum sentence was imposed
• noting failing to respond to misconduct would have eroded the court’s authority
• noting failing to respond to misconduct would have eroded the court’s authority

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Baker
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-02-20· cited 51×
• In re C.W.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-10-24· cited 27×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2004-07-29· cited 21×
• United States v. Lawrence Murphy, United States of America v. Lawrence Murphy
  Fourth Circuit· 2003-04-16· cited 10×
• Hill v. Randolph
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-06-01· cited 8×
• In Re: Davis, B., Appeal of: Davis, B.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2023-08-18· cited 7×
• Commonwealth v. Robinson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-07-19· cited 6×
• Com. v. Meehan, E.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2020-08-13· cited 6×
• Commonwealth v. Odom
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-11-01· cited 5×
• Com. v. Umoh, E.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2024-02-14· cited 5×
• Com. v. Outlaw, B.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2023-12-06· cited 4×
• State v. North
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2009-05-01· cited 3×
• Com. v. Williams, J.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2024-04-23· cited 3×
• State v. Mason
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2021-04-08· cited 1×
• In Re: Arrington, S., Appeal of: Arrington, S.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-07-16
• Com. v. Outlaw, B.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2023-09-20

Cites

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

• Commonwealth v. Lord
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-10-28· cited 1,456×
• Codispoti v. Pennsylvania
  Supreme Court· 1974-06-26· cited 370×
• Commonwealth v. Griscavage
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-11-17· cited 176×
• Commonwealth v. Comer
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-08-07· cited 101×
• Commonwealth v. Mayberry
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-10-16· cited 78×
• Commonwealth v. Houtz
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-09-24· cited 58×
• In re J.M.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-03-25· cited 46×
• Commonwealth v. Falana
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-05-21· cited 45×
• Commonwealth v. Owens
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-10-13· cited 38×
• Commonwealth v. Stilley
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-01-09· cited 36×
• Behr v. Behr
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-05-21· cited 34×
• Williams v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-12-22· cited 33×
• Williams v. Williams
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-07-08· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. Owens
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-10-27· cited 31×
• Commonwealth v. Marinelli
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-11-27· cited 30×
• Commonwealth v. Overby
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-01-07· cited 28×
• Commonwealth v. Jackson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-10-09· cited 28×
• Jojola v. New Mexico ex rel. Human Services Department
  Supreme Court· 1983-10-03· cited 26×
• Commonwealth v. Falkenhan
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-11-15· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Cain
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-03-01· cited 24×