Commonwealth v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
20
cited by 20 later decisions
2
states following
August 2018
most recently cited
20 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Infelice v. United States · Commonwealth v. Wright · Commonwealth v. Bianco · Commonwealth v. James · Commonwealth v. Bianco
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[j]urors are presumed to follow a judge's instructions.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The lack of forensic evidence ... was argued to the jury ... and was for them to consider”
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.