United States v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
302 U.S. 46 · 1937
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 3 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2021 · most notably Ridgway v. Ridgway (1981), Chatwin v. United States (1946)
26 federal appellate · 3 district · 27 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedUnited States v. Williams (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Lynch v. United States · Utah Power Light Company v. United States No 202 United States · Selective Draft Law Cases · In re Grimley · Hamilton v. Regents of the University of California
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]ar risk insurance was made available to those in active military service for the greater protection of themselves and their dependents.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ridgway v. Ridgway
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.