United States v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
31 F.3d 522 · 1994
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently January 2016 · most notably United States v. Magana (1997), United States v. Dean (1995)
44 federal appellate · 1 district · 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Pinkerton v. United States · United States v. Gutierrez · United States v. Diaz · United States v. Goodapple · United States v. Boykins
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In Counts Two and Three of the indictment, defendants Hector Hernandez, James L. Kerley, and Michael Williams are charged with the offense of carrying or using a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking offense in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 924 (c). Section 924(c) provides in pertinent part: Whoever, during and in relation to any ... drug trafficking crime ... for which he may be prosecuted in a court of the United States, uses or carries a firearm, shall be guilty of an offense of the United States.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[b]ecause the drug industry is, by nature, a violent business, the presence of firearms in transactions involving sizeable quantities of drugs is reasonably foreseeable.”
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.