Commonwealth v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
July 2018
most recently cited
1 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Stovall v. Denno · Commonwealth v. McNeil
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.
“there is no evidence whatsoever as to any attempt by appellant to conceal any weapon.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“began to spin the gun and toss it from one hand to the other.”
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.