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United States v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis

478 F.2d 369 · 1973

Citation profile

17
cited by 17 later decisions
1
states following
September 1996
most recently cited

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

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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.

  1. “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.