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.

• “A jury is not required to accept a confession as true even if it is voluntarily made.” (emphasis original)
• “[A] jury is not required to accept a confession as true even if it is voluntarily made.” (emphasis original)
• \[A] jury is not required to accept a confession as true even if it is voluntarily made.\ (emphasis original)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Wright
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-02-23· cited 74×
• Commonwealth v. Vento
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1963-03-19· cited 27×
• Commonwealth v. Howard
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1968-03-21· cited 14×
• Com. v. Seladones, T.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2023-10-24· cited 14×
• Moore v. People
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1967-12-11· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Gazaille
  Lebanon County Court of Oyer and Terminer· 1963-03-02

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Culombe v. Connecticut
  Supreme Court· 1961-06-19· cited 1,662×
• Rogers v. Richmond
  Supreme Court· 1961-03-20· cited 1,412×
• Stein v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1953-06-15· cited 786×
• Commonwealth v. Spardute
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1923-06-23· cited 112×
• Commonwealth v. Harman
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1846-12-15· cited 64×
• Commonwealth v. Ross
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1961-04-17· cited 42×
• Commonwealth v. Bryant
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1951-03-21· cited 37×
• Commonwealth v. Wilson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1898-05-09· cited 29×
• Commonwealth v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1953-01-05· cited 27×