United States v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
798 F.2d 1024 · 1986
Citation profile
79 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently July 2012 · most notably United States v. Townsend (1991), United States v. McNeese (1990)
79 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Illinois v. Gates · Stirone v. United States · Mansion House Center South Redevelopment Co. v. United States · Coastal Steel Corp. v. Wheelabrator-Frye, Inc.
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Once the government proves the existence of a conspiracy, the government need only offer 'slight evidence' to prove that an individual was a member of the conspiracy.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“1. that the alleged conspiracy existed, and 2. that the defendant knowingly and intentionally became a member of the conspiracy.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“involvement in the conspiracy other than her presence on certain occasions while her husband engaged in drug transactions.”
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.