United States v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
588 F.2d 92 · 1978
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2019
12 federal appellate · 1 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. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act)
Relies on United States v. Turcotte · United States v. Renner · Gray-Taylor, Inc. v. Fannin · United States v. Thrasher
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) who has been convicted in any court of, a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year;”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the previous conviction was bound to be known by defendant”
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.