Edward Glen Williams v. Louis S. Nelson, Warden’s Empirical Analysis
457 F.2d 376 · 1972
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently February 2025
8 federal appellate · 10 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 Chapman v. State of California · Katz v. United States · Bruton v. United States · Escobedo v. Illinois · Massiah 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]rickery does not constitute coercion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Younger · State v. Younger“[I]t is obvious that a jail shares none of the attributes of privacy of a home, an automobile, an office, or a hotel room. In prison, official surveillance had traditionally been the order of the day.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“in the hope that the two would discuss the crime and make some incriminating admissions.”
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.