United States v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
340 F.3d 563 · 2003
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably United States v. Crenshaw (2004), United States v. Dobbs (2006)
18 federal appellate · 3 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
Relies on Simmons v. United States · Manson v. Brathwaite · Iannelli v. United States · Sowashee Venture v. EB, Inc. · Negron 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`the opportunity of the witness to view the criminal at the time of the crime, the witness' degree of attention, the accuracy of his prior description of the criminal, the level of certainty demonstrated at the confrontation, and the time between the crime and the confrontation.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“examine the totality of the circumstances to determine whether the suggestive procedure[ ] created `a very substantial likelihood of irreparable misidentification.'”
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.