Williams v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
307 F.2d 366 · 1962
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2001 · most notably Stone v. Powell (1976), Kaufman v. United States (1969)
32 federal appellate · 4 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Eberhart v. United States · Tweedy 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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If an appeal is improvidently [resolved] in this court the remedy is by way of motion directed to this court asking for a recall of the mandate ... so that this court may determine whether the appeal should be reinstated. The recall of the mandate ... is entirely discretionary with this court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Questions concerning the admissibility of evidence obtained directly or indirectly as a result of an unlawful search can be reviewed on an appeal from a judgment of conviction, but cannot be dealt with in a section 2255 proceeding.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“utilized as a method of reviewing the action of this court in [handling] an appeal”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Feldman v. Henman
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.