Williams v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
237 F.2d 789 · 1956
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently June 1981 · most notably City of St. Paul v. Vaughn (1975), Commonwealth v. Pollard (1973)
28 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 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.
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“illegal because (it was) without a warrant, without probable cause, and without other validating circumstances,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““In a pre-trial motion to suppress appellant had disclaimed ownership of the capsules. But when his objection to their admission was renewed and acted upon at the trial itself the unchallenged testimony of the prosecution showed that the capsules were in appellant’s possession until he dropped them, thus giving him standing to object.””
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.