368 Pa. Super. 315 - Commonwealth v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
18
cited by 18 later decisions
1
states following
July 1992
most recently cited
18 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Miller v. Florida · Commonwealth v. Rhodes · Commonwealth v. Goldhammer · 344 Pa. Super. 108 - Commonwealth v. Williams · Municial Publications, Inc. v. Court of Common Pleas
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The aggravated assault conviction and (to a lesser extent) the criminal attempt (robbery) conviction fully vindicate the Commonwealth’s interest in protecting individuals from the risk of serious bodily injury and the type and degree of restraint which (in the instant case) the unlawful restraint conviction is intended to vindicate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“First, the crimes must ‘necessarily involve’ one another. Second, even if the two crimes necessarily involve one another, they do not merge if there are substantially different interests of the Commonwealth at stake and the defendant’s act has injured each interest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Unlawful restraint A person commits a misdemeanor of the first degree if he knowingly: (1) restrains another unlawfully in circumstances exposing him to risk of serious bodily injury____”
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.