133 Pa. Super. 104 - Commonwealth v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently April 2002
20 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Micuso · Commonwealth v. Mayberry · Potter v. State · State v. Budge · 120 Pa. Super. 22 - Commonwealth v. Gill
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is true that the death would not have occurred if [the defendant’s] automobile had not been on the highway. Its presence was unquestionably a condition without which Vincent’s death could not have taken place. But [the defendant’s] violation of the Vehicle Code had no direct relationship to the death. Id., 133 Pa.Super. at 111 , 1 A.2d at 815 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the unlawful act must be something more than an attendant condition without which the death could not have occurred; that the death must be the natural result or probable consequence of the unlawful act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.