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.

• “[Legislative language need not be afforded ‘mathematical precision’ in order to pass constitutional muster”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Commonwealth v. Delaney
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1997-07-28· cited 102×
• Commonwealth v. Kwiatkowski
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1994-08-03· cited 49×
• City of Portland v. Jacobsky
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1985-08-06· cited 48×
• Commonwealth v. Spano
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1993-01-15· cited 44×
• Commonwealth v. Van Bell
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2009-12-04· cited 41×
• Commonwealth v. Pagan
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2005-09-14· cited 36×
• Commonwealth v. Dunn
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1997-06-26· cited 33×
• Commonwealth v. Butler
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1996-02-22· cited 24×
• Commonwealth v. Cassidy
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2018-05-14· cited 22×
• American Dog Owners Association, Inc. v. Lynn
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1989-02-09· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Love
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1988-11-16· cited 15×
• Commonwealth v. Caldwell
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1987-11-19· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. Nuby
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1992-04-01· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. Stephens
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1987-12-02· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Bigelow
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2016-09-27· cited 13×
• American Lithuanian Naturalization Club, Athol, Mass., Inc. v. Board of Health
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2006-03-22· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Wilbur W., a juvenile
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2018-04-25· cited 10×
• Cedeno v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1989-02-23· cited 9×
• Commonwealth v. Benoit
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1988-12-08· cited 9×
• Commonwealth v. Taylor
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1992-07-24· cited 8×

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Kolender v. Lawson
  Supreme Court· 1983-05-02· cited 3,306×
• Papachristou v. City of Jacksonville
  Supreme Court· 1972-02-24· cited 1,862×
• Smith v. Goguen
  Supreme Court· 1974-03-25· cited 1,514×
• Commonwealth v. Gallant
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1977-11-02· cited 125×
• Commonwealth v. Orlando
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1977-01-24· cited 98×
• Commonwealth v. Carpenter
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1950-03-29· cited 78×
• Commonwealth v. Adams
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1983-05-18· cited 67×
• Commonwealth v. Bohmer
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1978-02-15· cited 59×
• Jaquith v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1954-06-04· cited 41×
• Thomes v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1969-01-09· cited 18×