Williams v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 state decisions

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

1. ““There is no room for any other interpretation of the express provisions of the statute, since its language is plain and wholly unambiguous, and to hold otherwise would not only be in plain violation of those provisions, but in effect would be the judicial creation of a felony and a direct encroachment upon or usurpation of legislative authority.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Walker v. Commonwealth