Williams v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently January 2002 · most notably Heinze v. State (1945), Crutchfield v. Commonwealth (1948)
27 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 State v. Newsom · Fields v. Commonwealth · Winn Bros. & Baker, Inc. v. Lipscomb · Pflaster v. Commonwealth
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is always necessary . . . before a judgment can be entered upon a verdict, that it appear just what the jury found or intended to find.”
2 later decisions 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.