353 Pa. Super. 312 - Commonwealth v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently March 2007 · most notably Commonwealth v. Dickson (2007), 375 Pa. Super. 419 - Commonwealth v. Smith (1988)
30 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 Bailey v. Butcher · Commonwealth v. Wright · State v. White · 102 Wash. 2d 120 - State v. Rice · People v. Tung Thanh Le
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“§ 9712. Sentences for offenses committed with firearms (a) Mandatory sentence. — Any person who is convicted in any court of this Commonwealth of ... robbery ... shall, if the person visibly possessed a firearm during the commission of the offense, be sentenced to a minimum sentence of at least five years of total confinement ...”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“persuaded by the case law in those jurisdictions which impose the minimum sentence of confinement on an unarmed accomplice who has knowledge that a firearm is employed in the commission of the pertinent felony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“anomalous to sentence the armed felon in accordance with the minimum sentence, while not similarly punishing an accomplice who is otherwise legally accountable for the actions of the armed felon,”
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.