Williams v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 135 · 28 U.S.C. § 455 · 28 U.S.C. § 461 · 5 U.S.C. § 5305 (Federal Law) · 5 U.S.C. § 5318
Relies on William Marbury v. James Madison · Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill · United States v. Will · Evans v. Gore · Strawbridge v. Curtiss
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he Ethics Reform Act granted federal judges a COLA . . . adjustment, effective at the time of the enactment of the Act in 1989.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“it is doubtful Congress intended to deny federal judges the same comparability increases provided to other federal employees,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“had until September 30 [in each of the four years] to accept or reject the proposed adjustment.”
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.