Commonwealth v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
January 1993
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Green v. United States · United States v. Wilson · Smalis v. Pennsylvania · Commonwealth v. Bolden · Commonwealth v. Mills
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The underlying idea, one that is deeply ingrained in at least the Anglo-American system of jurisprudence, is that the state with all its resources and power should not be allowed to make repeated attempts to convict an individual for an alleged offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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