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.

• observing that any uncertainty as to whether a weapon in the defendant’s possession was the one used in a given crime is a question of the weight of the evidence, not its admissibility
• stating similar-weapon exception applies “where ‘the accused (continuedJ

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Christine, J., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2015-10-27· cited 147×
• State v. Graham (Slip Opinion)
  Ohio Supreme Court· 2020-12-17· cited 125×
• Commonwealth v. Christine
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-08-30· cited 114×
• Commonwealth v. Toritto
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2013-05-16· cited 97×
• Commonwealth v. Pal
  Lackawanna County Court of Common Pleas· 2015-01-09· cited 1×
• Scranton Laminated Label, Inc. v. Florimonte
  Lackawanna County Court of Common Pleas· 2013-04-04

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Commonwealth v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-04-21· cited 199×
• Commonwealth v. Malloy
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-09-01· cited 183×
• Commonwealth v. Brougher
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-07-13· cited 110×
• Commonwealth v. Fransen
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-03-02· cited 99×
• Commonwealth v. Barnett
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-07-31· cited 74×
• Commonwealth v. Owens
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-07-17· cited 63×
• Commonwealth v. Broaster
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2004-12-03· cited 51×
• Commonwealth v. Edwards
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-11-03· cited 33×