Williamson v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2011
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
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · United States v. Cortez · Adams v. Williams · Delaware v. Prouse · United States v. Brignoni-Ponce
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the police are justified in stopping witnesses only where exigent circumstances are present, such as where a crime has recently been reported.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hawkins v. United States · In Re Kp““(i) The officer has reasonable cause to believe that a misdemeanor or felony, involving danger of forcible injury to persons or of appropriation of or danger to property, has just been committed near the place where he finds such person, and (ii) the officer has reasonable cause to believe that such person has knowledge of material aid in the investigation of such crime, and (iii) such action is reasonably necessary to obtain or verify the identification of such person, or to obtain an account of such crime.” Model Code of Pre-Arraignment Procedure § 110.2(1)(b) (1975), quoted in 4 W. LaFave, Search & Seizure § 9.2(b), at 24 (3d ed. 1996).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Id. at 476 (internal quotations and citations omitted) (emphasis added). We also voiced our agreement with Professor LaFave's characterization of the Model Code of Pre-Arraignment Procedure: Any authority to detain witnesses must be”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.