United States v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
604 F.2d 1102 · 1979
Citation profile
148 federal appellate · 3 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 183 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably United States v. Morgan (1984), State v. Carter (1989)
148 federal appellate · 3 district · 15 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Terry v. Ohio · Brady v. State of Maryland · Wong Sun v. United States · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Brinegar 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 183 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a question of fact to be determined from the totality of the circumstances.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent““The Jencks Act has been interpreted to impose no duty upon law enforcement officers to retain their rough, handwritten notes after the contents have been incorporated into more formal reports and the reports are checked for accuracy, especially when the notes have been destroyed in good faith.” [Quoting from United States v. Williams, 604 F.2d at 1116 ],”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he lawfulness of appellant's continued presence in the company of the police after the investigatory stop must be based upon either consent or probable cause, regardless *Page 758 of whether appellant was formally arrested or involuntarily detained for further questioning.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.