Williams v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
308 F.2d 326 · 1962
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 2 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently December 2020 · most notably Gilbert v. United States (1966), Smith v. United States (1966)
29 federal appellate · 2 district · 24 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Reserve Life Insurance v. Bankers Life & Casualty Co. · Brownell v. Stjepan Bozo Carija · Bell v. United States · Jackson 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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n a large metropolitan police establishment the collective knowledge of the organization as a whole can be imputed to an individual officer when he is requested or authorized by superiors or associates to make an arrest”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lee v. United States · In Re MEB
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.