Commonwealth v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
June 2018
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3664
Relies on Commonwealth v. Nawn · Commonwealth v. McIntyre · Commonwealth v. Yeshulas
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he purpose of restitution ... is not only to compensate the victim for his or her economic loss tied to the defendant's conduct, but also to make the defendant pay for the damage he or she caused as a punitive and rehabilitative sanction”
2 later decisions 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.