United States v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
523 F.2d 64 · 1975
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2008 · most notably Texas v. Brown (1983), United States v. Johnson (1976)
21 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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 26 U.S.C. § 5861 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968)
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Katz v. United States · Mapp v. Ohio · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Jones 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“was in plain view of the agents and its seizure satisfied the requirements set forth in United States v. Williams, 523 F.2d 64 , 66 (8th Cir. 1975) cert. denied, 423 U.S. 1090, 96 S.Ct. 884, 47 L.Ed.2d 101 (1976): 37 (T)he seizure was therefore not unreasonable if (1) the officers had made a lawful entry into the (residence), (2) the discovery was inadvertent, and (3) the incriminating nature of the (object) was”
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.