Williams v. Com.’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
November 2016
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Bolden v. Com. · George v. Commonwealth · Mason v. Commonwealth · Dunlavey v. Commonwealth · Britt v. Com.
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.
“took [the victim's] cell phone without permission from a `ledge' where [the victim] had left it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Carter 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.