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.

• explaining that “[t]he legislature is perfectly free to enact a sentencing scheme which rejects the ‘recidivist philosophy’ and focuses on other goals of the penal system”
• noting “five broad purposes of the penal system: protection of society, general deterrence ..., individual deterrence, rehabilitation, and retribution”
• 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
• noting “five broad purposes of the penal system: -9- J. S47035/17 protection of society, general deterrence . . . , individual deterrence, rehabilitation, and retribution”
• noting “five broad purposes of the penal system: protection of society, general deterrence . . ., individual deterrence, rehabilitation, and retribution.” (emphasis added)
• 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

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Commonwealth v. Lilley
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-07-21· cited 304×
• Commonwealth v. Shiffler
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-07-22· cited 232×
• Commonwealth v. McClintic
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-11-22· cited 137×
• 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. Walls
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-03-23· cited 69×
• Commonwealth v. Marks
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-12-18· cited 61×
• Commonwealth v. Kittrell
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-03-24· cited 55×
• Freundt v. Com. Dept. of Transp.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-09-28· cited 43×
• Commonwealth v. Vasquez
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-06-20· cited 41×
• Commonwealth v. Jarowecki
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-04-17· cited 38×
• Commonwealth v. Gehris
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-09-27· cited 31×
• United States v. William J. Jefferson, A/K/A Buddy Jefferson, William Jefferson
  Third Circuit· 1996-07-03· cited 22×
• Commonwealth, Aplt. v. Fields, R.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-12-31· cited 20×
• Brosius v. Commonwealth, Department of Transportation, Bureau of Driver Licensing
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-08-09· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. Bell
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-06-05· cited 15×
• Carter v. Commonwealth, Department of Transportation, Bureau of Driver Licensing
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-12-24· cited 13×
• Gregg v. Commonwealth, Department of Transportation, Bureau of Driver Licensing
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-06-08· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Boyd
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-12-14· cited 7×
• West v. Commonwealth, Department of Transportation
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-11-22· cited 6×

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Harner
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-11-12· cited 104×
• Commonwealth v. Dickerson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-03-17· cited 83×
• Commonwealth v. Vogel
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1970-07-13· cited 61×
• Commonwealth v. McDermott
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1909-04-12· cited 44×
• Commonwealth v. Corporan
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-06-17· cited 33×
• Commonwealth v. Beatty
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-01-21· cited 27×
• Commonwealth v. Tobin
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-01-21· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. Kane
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-11-23· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Tobin
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-04-16· cited 14×
• Commonwealth Ex Rel. Turpack v. Ashe
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1940-09-30· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-12-30· cited 13×