United States v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
754 F.2d 672 · 1985
Citation profile
59 federal appellate · 3 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 100 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably United States v. Knox (1988), United States v. Erwin (1998)
59 federal appellate · 3 district · 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
Applies 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Simmons v. United States · United States v. Mendenhall · United States v. Cortez · United States v. Ross
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 100 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Consent must be proved by clear and positive testimony and must be unequivocal, specific, and intelligently given, uncontaminated by any duress and coercion.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“best bet [is] to appear to consent [to the search] and then make a contrary claim at a later suppression hearing.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an appellate court is obliged to place a good deal of reliance upon the fact-finding capability and the integrity of the trial judge who presided at the evidentiary hearing.”
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.