Williams v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently October 2012
9 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. § 3500
Relies on Illinois Power Co. v. Local Union No. 51, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers · United States v. Augenblick · Campbell v. United States · Stassen for President Citizens Committee v. Jordan · Rosenberg 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“under the limited circumstances in which a statement, once in the government's possession, has been lost or is no longer producible,” other sanctions may be appropriate, including a “variant of the missing witness instruction.” Id. . In its brief, the government contends that the word “seek” in the transcript was the result of either a misstatement by the prosecutor or an error in transcription. The govemment argues that the statement should be understood as: “Government counsel did not [take] any notes during — meeting with the complaining witness.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“When a defendant seeks production of a statement under the Jencks Act, the trial court has an affirmative duty to determine whether any such statement exists and to conduct such inquiry as may be necessary to resolve the issue.. .. The fact that the prosecutor does not admit the existence of a statement does not relieve the court of its duty to determine whether the statement in fact ex ists.... [ Williams v. United States, D.C.App., 355 A.2d 784, 788 (1976) (citations omitted).]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(citing Kyles, 514 U.S. at 437 , 115 S.Ct. 1555 )). . After a finding that Jencks material exists,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.