United States v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
478 F.2d 369 · 1973
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently September 1996
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 656
Relies on Smith v. Illinois · Corallo v. United States · Reserve Life Insurance v. Bankers Life & Casualty Co. · Nelson v. County of Los Angeles · Anderson v. Alabama
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The government must show that the [embezzlement] acts were done willfully and intentionally, not by inadvertence or carelessness.”
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.