United States v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
705 F.2d 603 · 1983
Citation profile
103 federal appellate · 6 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 138 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2022 · most notably Jacobson v. United States (1992), United States v. Bilzerian (1991)
103 federal appellate · 6 district · 7 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1952 · 18 U.S.C. § 201 (Bank Bribery Amendments) · 18 U.S.C. § 203 · 18 U.S.C. § 2511 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 371
Relies on Sorrells v. United States · Sherman v. United States · California State Board of Equalization v. Western Marina Corp. · Hampton v. United States · United States v. White
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 138 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[i]t is sufficient if the defendant is of a frame of mind such that once his attention is called to the criminal opportunity, his decision to commit the crime is the product of his own preference and not the product of government persuasion.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“defendant's predisposition is not to be assessed 'as of that time when he committed the crime,'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“defined broadly to include 'the value which the defendant subjectively attaches to the items received' " (quoting Gorman , 807 F.2d at 1305 )); United States v. Williams , 705 F.2d 603 , 623 (2d Cir. 1983) ("Corruption of office occurs when the officeholder agrees to misuse his office in the expectation of gain, whether or not he has correctly assessed the worth of the bribe.”
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.