Commonwealth v. Wood

How courts have described this case

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

• sentencing court must consider whether the amount of restitution exceeds the defendant's ability to pay
• sentencing court must consider whether the amount of restitution exceeds the defendant’s ability to pay
• upholding sentence of restitution in which the hearing to determine a defendant’s ability to pay and the manner of payment was deferred until after he had been released on parole
• sentence of restitution is designed to impress “upon the offender the loss he has caused and his responsibility to repair that loss as far as it is possible to do so.”
• describing the purpose of restitution
• describing the purpose of restitution

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Commonwealth v. B.D.G.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-10-07· cited 183×
• Commonwealth v. Yanoff
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-02-12· cited 135×
• Commonwealth v. Galloway
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-07-16· cited 75×
• Commonwealth v. Balisteri
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-05-18· cited 55×
• Commonwealth v. Mourar
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-01-21· cited 49×
• Commonwealth v. Runion
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-07-18· cited 46×
• Commonwealth v. Boone
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-11-19· cited 45×
• Commonwealth v. Boyles
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-07-29· cited 41×
• In the Interest of Dublinski
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-05-29· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. Figueroa
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-03-18· cited 24×
• Fox v. State
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1986-07-16· cited 21×
• Commonwealth v. Valent
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-07-22· cited 21×
• Commonwealth v. Stock
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-08-16· cited 20×
• Commonwealth, Department of Public Welfare v. Oslager (In Re Oslager)
  M.D. Pennsylvania· 1985-02-28· cited 16×
• State v. Hawkins
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1982-11-12· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Katz
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-08-19· cited 10×
• Commonwealth v. Madron
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-02-15· cited 7×
• Davenport v. Pennsylvania, Department of Public Welfare (In Re Davenport)
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 1988-03-08· cited 7×
• Zajder v. Hills Department Store (In Re Zajder)
  W.D. Pennsylvania· 1993-05-25· cited 5×
• Com. v. Fisher, M.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2023-10-11· cited 5×

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Fuqua
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-06-27· cited 77×
• Commonwealth v. Kerr
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-04-16· cited 34×
• Commonwealth v. Erb
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-04-03· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. Seminko
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-04-02· cited 8×