Williams v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
418 F.2d 159 · 1969
Citation profile
111 federal appellate · 1 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 149 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2004 · most notably MacKey v. United States (1971), Williams v. United States (1971)
111 federal appellate · 1 district · 17 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Katz v. United States · Chimel v. California · Holland v. United States · Linkletter v. Walker · United States v. Rabinowitz
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 149 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[A]n arrest may not be used as a pretext to search for evidence without a search warrant where one would ordinarily be required under the Fourth Amendment.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A defendant has constructive possession of contraband if he 'knows of its presence and has power to exercise dominion and control over it.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) The purpose to be served by the new standards, (b) The extent of reliance by law enforcement authorities on the old standards, and (c) The effect on the administration of justice of a retroactive application of the new standards.”
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.