254 Pa. Super. 202 - Commonwealth v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently July 2014 · most notably Commonwealth v. Brown (1983), 294 Pa. Super. 383 - Long v. 130 MKT. ST. GIFT & NOVELTY, ETC. (1982)
34 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 Commonwealth v. Kates · 248 Pa. Super. 552 - Commonwealth v. Holmes · 218 Pa. Super. 188 - Commonwealth v. White · Commonwealth v. Duff · 250 Pa. Super. 116 - Commonwealth v. Jones
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whenever a defendant has been placed on probation or parole, the judge shall not revoke such probation or parole as allowed by law unless there has been a hearing held as speedily as possible at which the defendant is present and represented by counsel and there has been a finding of record that the defendant violated a condition of probation or parole.” (Emphasis added).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“... the purpose of probation ... is to provide the opportunity for rehabilitation as well as to afford a sufficient deterrent against future antisocial conduct.”
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.