Commonwealth v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably Commonwealth v. Tavares (1982), Commonwealth v. Mahnke (1975)
6 federal appellate · 65 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · United States v. Wade · Simmons v. United States · Harris v. New York · Commonwealth v. McKenna
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“criminal involvement was not of the nature that judges and juries, in weighing evidence, ordinarily equate with murder in the first degree.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“There was no error in the admission of the statements in evidence. They were admitted after a lengthy voir dire hearing on the defendant’s motion to suppress them. Thereafter the judge made extensive findings of fact, which were warranted by the evidence, and which support his rulings. In substance he found that the constitutional requirements of Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 [ 86 S.Ct. 1602 , 16 L.Ed.2d 694 ] (1966), had been met; that the defendant did not have the assistanee of counsel at the time that she made the statements but that she “freely, intelligently, knowingly, voluntarily, and willingly waived her constitutional rights not to talk” and her right to the assistance of counsel. He further found that “in few cases have I seen so many Miranda v. Arizona warnings given to a defendant and so many knowing, intelligent, free, and voluntary waivings of rights.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Williams v. Holbrook“This is not a case like Commonwealth v. McKenna, 355 Mass. 313 , 319-320, 244 N.E.2d 560 (1969), where the police actively prevented an attorney from reaching his client. [Emphasis supplied.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Williams v. Holbrook
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.