United States v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
577 F.2d 188 · 1978
Citation profile
75 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably United States v. Blakeney (1991), Doe ex rel. Doe v. New York City Department of Social Services (1981)
75 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 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 18 U.S.C. § 2113 · 18 U.S.C. § 371
Relies on Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Hill v. United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners, Local 25 · Padilla-Martinez v. United States · Hampton v. United States · Rowell 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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Evidence of other crimes, wrongs, or acts is not admissible to prove the character of a person in order to show that he acted in conformity therewith. It may, however, be admissible for other purposes, such as proof of motive, opportunity, intent, preparation, plan, knowledge, identity, or absence of mistake or accident.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“direct and the matter corroborated . . . significant.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“affirmatively take the issue of intent out of the case.”
2 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.