Commonwealth v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
2016
Citation profile
26 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2703 (§ 201 of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986)
Relies on Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · Smith v. Maryland · Commonwealth v. Latimore · Commonwealth v. Lanigan · L.L., a juvenile v. Commonwealth
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]o warrant a conviction of felony-murder as a joint venturer with armed robbery as the predicate felony, the Commonwealth had to prove that 'the defendant was a joint venturer in an armed robbery and that [the victim's] death occurred in the commission . . . of that [armed] robbery.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Webster v. Gray“In the absence of proof that the defendant himself was armed with a dangerous weapon, proof that the defendant knew that [his coventurer] was so armed would satisfy the first element of armed robbery.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“sufficient to permit a rational juror to conclude beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant knowingly participated in the [armed robbery], with the intent [to steal].”
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.