Commonwealth v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
2010
Citation profile
17
cited by 17 later decisions
1
states following
July 2022
most recently cited
17 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · United States v. Cronic · Commonwealth v. Pierce · Florida v. Nixon · Commonwealth v. Howard
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“shall be present at every stage of the trial including the impaneling of the jury and the return of the verdict , ... except as otherwise provided by this rule .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.