Commonwealth v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
2 district · 119 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 123 later decisions — most recently October 2021 · most notably Commonwealth v. Grandison (2001), Commonwealth v. Zanetti (2009)
2 district · 119 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 · Terry v. Ohio · Aguilar v. Texas · Spinelli v. United States · United States v. Mendenhall
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 123 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Probable cause to arrest exists where the facts and circumstances in the arresting officer’s knowledge and of which he or she has reasonably trustworthy information are sufficient to warrant a person of reasonable caution in believing that an offense has been or is being committed.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“No particular period of reflection is required for deliberate premeditation to be found. The law recognizes that a plan to murder may be formed within a few seconds”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[j]oint venture may be proved by circumstantial evidence, including evidence of flight together”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gomes v. Silva
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.