United States v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
49 F.3d 92 · 1995
Citation profile
9 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently December 2010
9 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 994
Relies on United States v. Schnell · United States v. Haynes · United States v. Griffiths
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“enhancement under subsection (b)(4) for a ... firearm with an altered or obliterated serial number applies whether or not the defendant knew or had reason to believe that the firearm ... had an altered or obliterated serial number.”
3 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.