Williams v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis
436 F.2d 30 · 1970
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2023 · most notably Adams v. Williams (1972), 107 Wash. 2d 1 - State v. Kennedy (1986)
22 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 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
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Aguilar v. Texas · Brinegar v. United States · Chimel v. California · Spinelli 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“instead of the stop being the object and the protective frisk an incident thereto, the reverse will be true.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Narcotics Agent Marsh would hardly have been at the Denver Station at the exact moment of the arrival of the train Draper had taken from Chicago unless someone had told him something important, although the agent might later have embroidered the details to fit the observed facts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“an eye-witness, invested with `built-in credibility'”
1 later decision 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.