Williams v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
September 2000
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Woods 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The instruction was given to inform the jury of the proper and only purpose for which the evidence should be considered.”
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.