Williams v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
2 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently January 2019
2 district · 19 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
Relies on North Carolina v. Pearce · Brown v. Ohio · Bell v. United States · United States v. Broce · Menna v. New York
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“by incorporating the common law of Maryland, Congress did not intend to freeze the common law as it existed in 1801. Rather, Congress meant to incorporate the "dynamic” common law, not merely "its then-current pronouncements on specific problems." As a consequence, [we have] concluded that D.C. Code § 49-301 “is not a bar to the exercise of our inherent power to alter or amend the common law.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[c]ommon law doctrines are not frozen for criminal cases any more than civil cases, and the courts charged with voicing the common law of the District of Columbia take account of the evolution of common law principles in light of current perceptions and needs” (citation omitted)). 6 . The Model Penal Code includes a provision, less serious than manslaughter, imposing homicide liability for killings”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[w]e have held ... that by incorporating the common law of Maryland ... Congress did not intend to freeze the common law as it existed in 1801. Rather, Congress meant to incorporate the 'dynamic' common law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.