United States v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
447 F.2d 894 · 1971
Citation profile
61 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently January 2013 · most notably United States v. Haldeman (1976), United States v. Harrelson (1985)
61 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 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 Allen v. United States · Gotthelf v. Commissioner · Hawkins v. United States · United States v. Fioravanti · Posey 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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The limitation of the five defendants to ten peremptory challenges and permitting them to be exercised separately or jointly is in direct compliance with F.R.Crim.P., Rule 24(b). Under that rule the court may (not must) allow additional peremptory challenges where there are multiple defendants.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[D]etermination of the credibility of witnesses is the jury's proper function, not the court's.”) . Cf. United States v. Dopf, 434 F.2d 205, 208 (5th Cir.1970) (”
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.