Commonwealth v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently August 2010
17 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 Culombe v. Connecticut · United States v. Mitchell · Commonwealth v. Futch · Commonwealth v. Kichline · Commonwealth v. Davenport
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“RULE 130. PROCEDURE IN COURT CASES INITIATED BY ARREST WITHOUT WARRANT. (a) Except as provided in paragraph (b), when a defendant has been arrested without a warrant in a court case, he shall be taken without unnecessary delay before the proper issuing authority where a complaint shall be filed against him and he shall be given an immediate preliminary arraignment. (b) When a defendant has been arrested without a warrant for driving under the inftuence of alcohol or controlled substances, the arresting officer may, when he deems it appropriate, promptly release the defendant from custody rather than taking him before the issuing authority. In such event, a complaint shall be filed against the defendant and the case shall thereafter proceed as provided in Rules 102 and 110. NOTE: Formerly rule 118 and 118(a), adopted June 30, 1964; effective January 1, 1965, suspended effective May 1, 1970; revised January 31, 1970, effective May 1, 1970; renumbered September 18, 1973, effective January 1, 1974; amended December 14, 1979, effective April 1, 1980. COMMENT: Under the exception provided in paragraph (b), it is expected that the police will either promptly arrange for the defendant’s release or, if it is necessary to detain the defendant, provide a preliminary arraignment. Prompt release allows, of course, for the administration of any sobriety tests pursuant to the Vehicle Code, Act of June 17, 1976, P.L. 162, No. 81, § 1547, 75 Pa.C.S. § 1547. Appropriate circumstances for follo”
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.