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.

• “Confessions of error ... do not relieve an appellate court of the performance of its appellate functions”
• confession of error does not relieve appellate court of the performance of its appellate functions
• conviction on OUI second offense reversed after judge mistakenly advised jury of second offense allegation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. McClary
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1992-12-11· cited 29×
• Commonwealth v. Whitlock
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1995-12-08· cited 19×
• Commonwealth v. Clark
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1987-01-13· cited 17×
• Commonwealth v. Darch
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2002-05-13· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Butler
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2007-04-13· cited 5×
• Commonwealth v. Gonsalves
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2009-06-05· cited 4×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2003-12-18· cited 3×
• Commonwealth v. Brann
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1987-02-27
• Commonwealth v. Dolliver
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2001-08-13
• Commonwealth v. Roy
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2018-07-19
• Commonwealth v. Francisco Nunez Severino.
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2025-10-15

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Sibron v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 4,326×
• Young v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1942-12-17· cited 300×
• Commonwealth v. Moreira
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1982-04-12· cited 42×
• Commonwealth v. Wallace
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1982-09-01· cited 31×
• Smith v. Commonwealth
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1954-09-16· cited 21×