United States v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
341 U.S. 58 · 1951
Citation profile
361 federal appellate · 9 district · 80 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 563 later decisions (25 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2023 · most notably United States v. Cotton (2002), Tenney v. Brandhove (1951)
361 federal appellate · 9 district · 80 state decisions — followed in 23 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1621 · 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 241 (Church Arson Prevention Act of 1996) · 18 U.S.C. § 242 · 18 U.S.C. § 3231 · 18 U.S.C. § 3731
Relies on Bell v. Hood · Pinkerton v. United States · United States v. United Mine Workers of America · United States v. Di Re · Chicot County Drainage District v. Baxter State Bank
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 563 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Here * * * we have a federal statute enacted in an effort to keep the course of justice free from the pollution of perjury. * * * The effect of the alleged false testimony could not result in a miscarriage of justice in this case but the federal statute against perjury is not directed so much at its effects as at its perpetration; at the probable wrong done the administration of justice by false testimony.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that the indictment is defective does not affect the jurisdiction of the trial court to determine the case presented by the indictment.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Federal courts have subject-matter jurisdiction over federal criminal prosecutions by virtue of 18 U.S.C. § 3231 , which vests the district courts with the power to hear 'all offenses against the laws of the United States.'”
3 later decisions 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.