Commonwealth v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently December 2021 · most notably Commonwealth v. Wright (2008), Commonwealth v. Cox (2009)
50 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 Strickland v. Washington · Williams v. Taylor · United States v. Wade · Chambers v. Maroney · Arizona v. Fulminante
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“post hoc rationalization of counsel's conduct.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“only rudimentary knowledge of [the defendant's] history from a narrow set of sources.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“in Cronic itself the United States Supreme Court held that a newly-appointed attorney, who was afforded only twenty-five days to prepare for trial in a case which the government spent four and one-half years investigating and preparing, was not per se ineffective. The fact that counsel was a young real estate attorney trying his first criminal case, the severity of the criminal charges, the complexity of the matter, and the inaccessibility of witnesses to counsel did not, individually or in combination, provide a basis for concluding that counsel could not render adequate stewardship.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commonwealth v. King
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.