Commonwealth v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently July 2022
10 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 Commonwealth v. Grace · Commonwealth v. Satterfield · Commonwealth v. Stewart · Commonwealth v. Raymond · Commonwealth v. Acevedo
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“defendant's claim in his affidavit that trial counsel was ineffective in his preparation is 'conspicuously marred' by his failure to file an affidavit from his attorney, or to even indicate that he sought to obtain an affidavit from counsel”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“rely heavily on the defendant's sworn responses; '[a] judge is not expected to read the defendant's mind or the multiplicity of unspoken thoughts and emotions that underlie the decision to plead guilty.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In reviewing the disposition of a motion for a new trial, we must determine whether there has been a significant error of law or other abuse of discretion.”
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.