Williams v. Com.’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently September 2016
17 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 Apprendi v. New Jersey · Blakely v. Washington · ABOD v. Commonwealth
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under a proper application of the Code section, in determining the length of a permitted sentence, the three-year term of postrelease supervision is added to the . . . term that could have been imposed for the . . . offenses of which the defendant was convicted.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“impose a term of post[-]release supervision of not less than six months nor more than three years.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wright v. Com.“in addition to any other punishment imposed,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Alston v. Com.
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.