Williams v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
402 F.2d 47 · 1967
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently February 2007 · most notably People v. Duran (1975), Sheila's Shine Products, Inc. v. Sheila Shine, Inc. (1973)
23 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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 15 U.S.C. § 77E (§ 5 of the Securities Act of 1933) · 15 U.S.C. § 77Q (§ 17 of the Securities Act of 1933)
Relies on Cheff v. Schnackenberg · B & C Truck Leasing, Inc., a Corporation, Carl F. Moyes, and Ogden Drivers Service, Inc., a Corporation v. Interstate Commerce Commission
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“cannot be so general as to leave the party open to the hazard of conducting business in the mistaken belief that it is not prohibited by the injunction and thus make him vulnerable to prosecution for contempt.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“In this posture it is difficult to term appellant's argument that the injunction is inoperative from lack of specificity as more than self-denying.”
2 later decisions 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.