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← 577 Pa. 473 - Commonwealth v. Williams

Commonwealth v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis

2004

Citation profile

12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
December 2015
most recently cited

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.

  1. “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.