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← 2012 Pa. Super. 264 - Commonwealth v. Williams

2012 Pa. Super. 264 - Commonwealth v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis

2012

Citation profile

6
cited by 6 later decisions
2
states following
December 2020
most recently cited

6 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Commonwealth v. Williams · Luke v. Cataldi · Commonwealth v. Malloy · 2012 Pa. Super. 157 - Commonwealth v. Barnett · 2007 Pa. Super. 213 - Commonwealth v. Owens

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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “A weapon shown to have been in a defendant’s possession may properly be admitted into evidence, even though it cannot positively be identified as the weapon used in the commission of a particular crime, if it tends to prove that the defendant had a weapon similar to the one used in the perpetration of the crime.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “access to a firearm similar to the one witnesses claimed he was holding when threatening the victim on the night of the murder.”
    1 later decision 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.