United States v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
33 F.3d 876 · 1994
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently November 2024 · most notably United States v. Thomas (1996), United States v. Rodriguez (1995)
17 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Wong Sun v. United States · Missouri v. Continential Insurance Cos. · Robertson v. Methow Valley Citizens Council · Boatmen's National Bank of St. Louis v. Carver
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The probative value of flight as evidence of a defendant’s guilt depends on the degree of confidence with which four inferences can be drawn: (1) from behavior to flight; (2) from flight to consciousness of guilt; (3) from consciousness of guilt to consciousness of guilt concerning the crime charged; and (4) from consciousness of guilt concerning the crime charged to actual guilt of the crime charged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“We have long adhered to the Supreme Court’s counsel that courts be wary of the probative value of flight evidence.”
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.