Williams v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently June 2016
8 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 Missouri v. Continential Insurance Cos. · Atlantic Richfield Co. v. Newman Oil Co. · Foy v. Northeast Suburban Life · Dade County v. Lake Lucerne Civic Ass'n · Fiswick 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) a conspiracy existed, (2) the defendant had a connection with the conspiracy, and (3) the coconspirator made the statements during the course of and in furtherance of the conspiracy.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[c]onspirators do not necessarily achieve their chief aim at the precise moment when every element of a substantive offense has occurred.... Before the conspirators can be said to have successfully attained their main object, they often must take additional steps, e.g., fleeing, or disposing of the fruits and instrumentalities of crime. Such acts further the conspiracy by assisting the conspirators in realizing the benefits from the offense which they agreed to commit.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.