Commonwealth v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably Commonwealth v. Spotz (2011), Commonwealth v. Powell (2008)
53 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 Batson v. Kentucky · Commonwealth v. Young · Commonwealth v. Johnson · 368 Pa. Super. 557 - Dorn v. Stanhope Steel, Inc. · In re Daniel T.
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The fundamental tool for appellate review is the official record of what happened at trial, and appellate courts are limited to considering only those facts that have been duly certified in the record on appeal. To ensure that the appellate courts have all necessary records, the Pennsylvania Rules of Appellate Procedure provide for the transmission of certified records from trial courts to appellate courts. [Pa.R.A.P.1911] makes it clear that appellants must order all transcripts necessary to decide the appeal, and that the Superior Court may take any action it deems appropriate, including dismissal of the appeal, if the appellant does not order the necessary transcripts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Rule 1911 requires appellants to order all transcripts necessary for their appeals.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Steward v. Grace
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.