Williams v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

15 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions

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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The history shows that Williams is a confirmed criminal, a ‘recidivist’ in the parlance of the penologists. But that fact alone does not require that he be committed to a hospital rather than the penitentiary. A long criminal record does not excuse crime.” 312 F.2d at 864 .”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Leach v. United States · United States v. Leach

2. ““We conclude that appellant's trial was free of prejudicial error and that his conviction must be affirmed. In so doing, however, we do not foreclose the possibility of a further inquiry, by the proper authorities, whether his sentence should be served in the penitentiary or a mental hospital. Indeed, under the general law, 18 U.S.C. § 4241 , and the District of Columbia Code, § 24-302, any prisoner found to be ‘mentally ill’ may be transferred to a mental hospital. It may well be that Williams is a proper candidate for such action.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Leach