Commonwealth v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
12
cited by 12 later decisions
2
states following
February 2003
most recently cited
12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Wable · Commonwealth v. Coyle · Commonwealth v. Strantz · Commonwealth v. Burdell · Commonwealth v. Raymond
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A party] cannot adopt a strategy and at the same time preclude the [adverse party] from testing its validity by cross-examination ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dysthe v. State
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.