United States v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
788 F.2d 1213 · 1986
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably United States v. Beddow (1992), United States v. Thomas (1996)
13 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1503 · 18 U.S.C. § 1623 · 18 U.S.C. § 3146 (Bail Reform Act of 1984) · 18 U.S.C. § 3150 (Bail Reform Act of 1984)
Relies on Raphan v. United States · Dames & Moore v. Regan · Figueroa v. United States · Wood v. Strickland · Johnston 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a review of relevant authorities demonstrates that there is no single defined policy or mechanical test to determine constitutional venue. Rather, the test is best described as a substantial contacts rule that takes into account a number of factors--the site of the defendant's acts, the elements and nature of the crime, the locus of the effect of the criminal conduct, and the suitability of each district for accurate fact finding. . . .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is proper both in the district issuing the order to appear and in the district where defendant was ordered to appear....”
1 later decision 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.