Williams v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
199 F.2d 921 · 1952
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently March 2007 · most notably Dixon v. Alabama State Board of Education (1961), Colonial Refrigerated Transportation, Inc. v. Mitchell (1968)
20 federal appellate · 1 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 Thomas Wood Junior v. United States · Anderson v. United States · Stagner v. United States · Busic 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is urged that the documentary evidence was inadmissible and should have been excluded, because generally evidence of other offenses is not competent to prove the offense charged, especially where such previous offenses are remote in time to the one charged. The rule contended for does not obtain in civil suits where the question to be decided is intent to defraud. In a case such as this the test as to the admission of evidence of other transactions is not whether such other transactions were criminal, but is whether the evidence is relevant to the issue on trial. The issue on [the former] trial involved the intent of the parties to violate the Internal Revenue Laws. The questioned evidence is relevant to illustrate the motive or intent of the parties on the occasion in question. The trial Court carefully instructed the jury that its consideration of this evidence should be limited to that specific purpose. The Court did not err in permitting the exhibit of the evidence and submitting it to the jury under proper instructions. . . . ” (Emphasis supplied.) 199 F.2d at 922 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““In libel against a truck, automobile and certain other property alleged to have been intended to be used in violation of the Internal Revenue Code, failure of defendants to take stand to explain or attempt to explain circumstantial evidence against them was a circumstance which could be considered against them.””
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.