Williams v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
192 F.2d 39 · 1951
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently October 1982 · most notably Shelton v. United States (1957), United States v. Parking (1954)
40 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
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
Relies on Bergen v. United States · United States v. Colonna · Goo v. United States
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To constitute a sufficient reason for withdrawal of a plea, * * * the circumstances must amount to a fraud or imposition upon the defendant, or a misapprehension of his legal rights.” (Emphasis supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.