United States v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
594 F.2d 1258 · 1979
Citation profile
43 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably Frazer v. United States (1994), State v. Hutchins (1981)
43 federal appellate · 13 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
Relies on United States v. Wade · Simmons v. United States · Neil v. Biggers · Manson v. Brathwaite · Brown v. Craven
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“client-attorney relationship had been a stormy one with quarrels, bad language, threats and counter threats.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"[F]orced into a trial with the assistance of a particular lawyer with whom he was dissatisfied, with whom he would not cooperate, and with whom he would not, in any manner whatsoever, communicate.... .... "We think, however, that to compel one charged with grievous crime to undergo a trial with the assistance of an attorney with whom he has become embroiled in irreconcilable conflict is to deprive him of the effective assistance of any counsel whatsoever."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“where the request for change of counsel comes during the trial, or on the eve of trial, the Court may, in the exercise of its sound discretion, refuse to delay the trial to obtain new counsel and therefore may reject the request.”
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.