United States v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
558 F.3d 166 · 2009
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2020 · most notably 131 S. Ct. 18 - Abbott v. United States (2010), United States v. Stewart (2009)
16 federal appellate · 5 district ·
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. § 1346 · 18 U.S.C. § 175C · 18 U.S.C. § 1951 (Hobbs Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 3553 · 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 812 (§ 202 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · McNally v. United States · Crandon v. United States · United States v. Santos · American Airlines, Inc. v. Wolens
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(B) If the firearm possessed by a person convicted of a violation of this subsection— “(i) is a short-barreled rifle, short-barreled shotgun, or semiautomatic assault weapon, the person shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of not less than 10 years; or “(ii) is a machinegun or a destructive device, or is equipped with a firearm silencer or firearm muffler, the person shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of not less than 30 years. “(C) In the ease of a second or subsequent conviction under this subsection, the person shall— “(i) be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of not less than 25 years; and “(ii) if the firearm involved is a machinegun or a destructive deviee, or is equipped with a firearm silencer or firearm muffler, be sentenced to imprisonment for life.””
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““[N]o term of imprisonment imposed on a person under this subsection shall run concurrently with any other term of imprisonment imposed on the person, including any term of imprisonment imposed for the crime of violence or drug trafficking crime during which the firearm was used, carried, or possessed.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Section 924(c) dictates an additional minimum sentence for an underlying offense because of the presence of the firearm; thus, if “a greater minimum sentence is otherwise provided” on account of the firearm, then under the “except clause” that greater minimum might supersede the otherwise applicable section 924(c) adjustment. Conceivably, Congress wished to avoid a double increment for the same firearm, so this is at least a plausible reading, while Parker’s suggested readings are implausible based on the statutory purpose. That very double-counting danger was arguably present in [Whitley ], on which Parker principally relies. There the defendant was convicted and sentenced for Hobbs Act robbery, and also subject to a fifteen-year mandatory minimum sentence because he possessed a firearm in the course of the robbery and had three prior convictions for violent felonies or serious drug offenses. Application of section 924(c), which the Whitley court disallowed, would have imposed a further ten year consecutive sentence for the discharge of the same gun in the same robbery.”
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.