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← 89 MASSAPPCT 383 - Commonwealth v. Williams

Commonwealth v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis

2016

Citation profile

7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
July 2018
most recently cited

7 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Brady v. United States · Commonwealth v. Morrow · Opinions of the Justices to the House of Representatives · Commonwealth v. Scott · Commonwealth v. Clarke

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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “a significant error of law or other abuse of discretion.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 92 Mass. App. Ct. 1130 - Commonwealth v. White · 93 Mass. App. Ct. 1116 - Commonwealth v. Biaggi
  2. “with a conclusive presumption that the misconduct was egregious and that its occurrence was attributable to the Commonwealth,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 92 Mass. App. Ct. 1130 - Commonwealth v. White
  3. “the misconduct influenced his decision to plead guilty or, put another way, that it was material to that choice.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 92 Mass. App. Ct. 1130 - Commonwealth v. White

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.