Commonwealth v. Williams

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that criminal penalties imposed for violating Pennsylvania’s Registration of Sexual Offenders Act were unconstitutionally punitive
• holding that Megan’s Law II as applied to SVPs is not excessive, at least not by the “clearest proof”
• holding that the registration, notification, and counseling provisions of Megan’s Law II do not constitute criminal punishment except for the penalty provisions of sections 9795.2(d)(2) and 9796(e)(2
• holding certain penalties that applied to noncompliant SVP unconstitutional, but determining that those provisions could be severed from the rest of Megan's Law II
• noting that Williams challenged the provision following the trial court’s order directing the SOAB to assess Williams
• holding that provisions in a prior version of SORNA were not punitive

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

201 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Commonwealth v. Muniz, J., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-07-19· cited 899×
• Commonwealth v. Shugars
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-03-24· cited 480×
• Commonwealth, Aplt. v. Hopkins, K.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2015-06-15· cited 395×
• Commonwealth v. Butler
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-10-31· cited 372×
• Commonwealth v. Batts, Q., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-06-26· cited 293×
• Commonwealth v. Maldonado
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-12-18· cited 205×
• In Re Commitment of Fisher
  Texas Supreme Court· 2005-05-20· cited 193×
• A.S. v. Pennsylvania State Police
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2016-08-15· cited 171×
• In the Interest of J.B.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-12-29· cited 152×
• Commonwealth v. P.L.S.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-02-02· cited 124×
• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-07-02· cited 105×
• Commonwealth v. Aponte
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-08-19· cited 104×
• Commonwealth v. Perez
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-07-09· cited 103×
• Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Dengler
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-12-30· cited 96×
• Lehman v. Pennsylvania State Police
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-12-30· cited 94×
• Commonwealth v. Price
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-05-27· cited 94×
• Commonwealth, Aplt. v. Shower, W.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2016-09-28· cited 91×
• Commonwealth v. Howe
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-01-26· cited 90×
• Commonwealth v. Green
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-02-12· cited 90×
• Commonwealth v. Leidig
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-09-24· cited 77×