2008 Pa. Super. 6 - Commonwealth v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably Commonwealth v. Segida (2009), 2009 Pa. Super. 137 - Commonwealth v. Gonzalez (2009)
56 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Stansbury v. California · City of Hazleton v. City Council · Walker v. True · Commonwealth v. Reed
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Our standard of review in addressing a challenge to a trial court’s denial of a suppression motion is limited to determining whether the factual findings are supported by the record and whether the legal conclusions drawn from those facts are correct. [W]e may consider only the evidence of the prosecution and so much of the evidence for the defense as remains uncontradicted when read in the context of the record as a whole. Where the record supports the findings of the suppression court, we are bound by those facts and may reverse only if the court erred in reaching its legal conclusions based upon the facts.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“(c) Restriction.- (1) Any person receiving a penalty imposed pursuant to 75 Pa.C.S. § 1543(b) (relating to driving while operating privilege is suspended or revoked), former 75 Pa.C.S. § 3731 (relating to driving under influence of alcohol or controlled substance) or 75 Pa.C.S. § 3804 (relating to penalties) for a first, second or third offense under 75 Pa.C.S. Ch. 38 (relating to driving after imbibing alcohol or utilizing drugs) may only be sentenced to county intermediate punishment after undergoing an assessment under 75 Pa.C.S. § 3814 (relating to drug and alcohol assessments).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“In adopting IPP as a sentencing alternative, “[t] he Legislature’s intent was to give judges another sentencing option which would lie between probation and incarceration with respect to sentencing severity; to provide a more appropriate form of punishment/ treatment for certain types of non-violent offenders; to make the offender more accountable to the community; and to help reduce the county jail overcrowding problem while maintaining public safety.” Id. At 534. Thus, the grant or denial of a defendant’s request for IPP is largely within the sound discretion of the trial court. Commonwealth v. Williams, 941 A.2d 14,24 (Pa. Super. 2008) (en banc), quoting Commonwealth v. Arthur Williams, 868 A.3d 529 , 534 (Pa. Super. 2005), appeal denied, 890 A.2d 1059 (Pa. 2005) and citing Syno, 791 A.2d 363 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.