United States v. Willis’s Empirical Analysis
49 F.3d 1271 · 1995
Citation profile
23 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently May 2013 · most notably United States v. McClinton (1998), United States v. Burnett (1995)
23 federal appellate ·
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 Bruton v. United States · Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Harrington v. California · Richardson v. Marsh · Zafiro 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether the defendant committed a minor offense, or caused only minor social injury; the question is whether the defendant's role in the crime of conviction was minor.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“make a more detailed inquiry into just what Willis knew about the scope of the organization and the volume of its business”
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.