United States v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
621 F.2d 123 · 1980
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2015 · most notably Evans v. United States (1992), United States v. Troutman (1987)
41 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Grayned v. City of Rockford · Stirone v. United States · Grayned v. City of Rockford · Perrin 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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“actual or threatened force, violence, or fear.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'Extortion "under color of official right”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“accepted money and gratuities, knowing he was not entitled to them in the discharge of his lawful duties, and that payment was induced by his official position.”
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.