United States v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
10 F.3d 910 · 1993
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably United States v. Bennett (1994), In re Sealed Case (2001)
18 federal appellate · 3 district ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1341 (White-Collar Crime Penalty Enhancement Act of 2002) · 18 U.S.C. § 1962 (§ 901 of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act)
Relies on Penn v. Parke State Bank · United States v. Wright · United States v. Sklar · United States v. Mocciola · United States v. Garcia
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Only after the government has met its burden of establishing, by a preponderance of the evidence, a sufficient nexus between the [extraneous] conduct and the offense of conviction,' may the sentencing court, in its sound discretion, make a relevant conduct' adjustment.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“sufficient indicia of reliability to support its probable accuracy,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“we repeatedly have upheld [the court's] reliance [at sentencing] on prior hearsay testimony never subjected to cross-examination, so long as there were other adequate indicia of reliability.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.