United States v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
674 F.2d 310 · 1982
Citation profile
77 federal appellate · 10 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 140 later decisions — most recently January 2024 · most notably 196 W. Va. 692 - Powderidge Unit Owners Ass'n v. Highland Properties, Ltd. (1996), Eberhardt v. Integrated Design & Construction, Inc. (1999)
77 federal appellate · 10 district · 4 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 Wingo v. Wedding · Stein v. United States · United States v. Hogan
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 140 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“nothing more than a request that the district court change its mind,”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“[R]ule 60(b) does not authorize a motion merely for reconsideration of a legal issue.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“properly rejected by the district court.”
2 later decisions 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.