Williams v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
403 F.2d 176 · 1968
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently August 2014 · most notably United States v. Haldeman (1976), United States v. Smith (1975)
20 federal appellate · 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 Gordon v. United States · Belton 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * he [was] entitled to the fuller attention the jury might have given to the inconsistency between the statement and the witness’ initial testimony if the statement had been admitted and the jury allowed to take it into the jury room.” 403 F.2d at 179 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Scadden v. State“The best evidence of any contradiction which might impeach [the witness's] credibility was the prior statement itself. That statement should have been admitted into evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“basic fact of an inconsistency . . . became known to the jury”
1 later decision 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.