Williams v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
418 F.2d 372 · 1969
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently October 2013 · most notably Tinsley v. Borg (1990), United States v. Jones (1983)
26 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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. § 1503 · 18 U.S.C. § 1508 · 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 2113 · 18 U.S.C. § 4 · 18 U.S.C. § 7
Relies on Bollenbach v. United States · Miller v. Pate · Perez v. United States · Minner v. United States · Welch 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he fact that [the] juror * * * might have been peremptorily challenged by defendant is not alone sufficient to reverse defendant's conviction.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““* * * appellant assigns as error juror Dillon’s failure to disclose on voir dire that the business he was associated with had recently been the victim of an armed robbery. Defendant asserts that this deprived him of a trial by a fair and impartial jury, and it impaired his opportunity -to effectively exercise his peremptory challenges.””
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.