Commonwealth v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently December 2014 · most notably Commonwealth v. Shiffler (2005), Commonwealth v. McClintic (2006)
1 federal appellate · 26 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 Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board v. Williams · Commonwealth v. Harner · Commonwealth v. Dickerson · Commonwealth v. Vogel · Commonwealth v. Corporan
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.
“the legislature is therefore free to reject or replace it when enacting recidivist sentencing legislation. If the legislature enacts a statute which clearly expresses a different application, the `recidivist philosophy' possesses no authority which would override clearly contrary statutory language.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“not a constitutional principle or mandate”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gregg v. COM., DOT
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.