Commonwealth v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Williams v. Taylor · Wiggins v. Smith, Warden · Trident Associates Ltd. Partnership v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. · United States v. Virginia · Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Samara Bros.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is unclear whether the [PCRA] court specifically considered the (e)(8) mitigator.”
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.