United States v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
378 F.2d 665 · 1967
Citation profile
16 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently May 2023 · most notably United States v. Cates (1968), United States v. White (1971)
16 federal appellate ·
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 Manning v. United States · Yates v. United States · United States v. Taylor · United States v. Ball
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Proof sufficient to support a criminal conviction is not required to support a judge's discretionary order revoking probation.”
2 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.