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← 278 Va. 633 - Williams v. Com.

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.

  1. “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 majority

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.