Williamson v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
365 F.2d 12 · 1966
Citation profile
46 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably 368 So. 2d 871 - Cumbo v. State (1978), United States v. Fioravanti (1969)
46 federal appellate · 31 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 · 18 U.S.C. § 656 · 28 U.S.C. § 1732
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Allen v. United States · Caminetti v. United States · Jencks v. United States · Palermo 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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`. . . the standard utilized by this Court is not whether in our opinion the evidence and all reasonable inferences therefrom failed to exclude every hypothesis other than guilt, but rather whether there was evidence from which the jury might reasonably so conclude.' Williamson v. United States , 5th Cir., 1966, 365 F.2d 12 , 14 . (Emphasis supplied).”
8 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.