Commonwealth v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Francis v. Franklin · Anchors v. United States · Williams v. Lynaugh, Director, Texas Department of Corrections · Commonwealth v. Wright · Commonwealth v. Flebotte
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“do not appear to represent an effort to place a burden on the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“an attempt to meet the Commonwealth's burden of disproving self-defense.”
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.