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298 Pa. Super. 466 - Commonwealth v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis

1982

Citation profile

26
cited by 26 later decisions
1
states following
May 2018
most recently cited

24 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably 311 Pa. Super. 264 - Commonwealth v. Lapia (1983), 364 Pa. Super. 604 - Commonwealth v. Espada (1987)

24 state decisions

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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 Terry v. Ohio · Aguilar v. Texas · Adams v. Williams · California v. Southland Royalty Co. · Commonwealth v. Kichline

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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “whether the factual findings are supported by the record. In making this determination, we must consider only the evidence of the prosecution’s witnesses, and so much evidence of the defense that remains un-contradicted when fairly read in the context of the record as a whole. When the evidence supports the factual findings, we are bound by such findings, we may reverse only if the legal conclusions drawn therefrom are erroneous.”
    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.