United States v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
877 F.2d 516 · 1989
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently April 2005 · most notably United States v. Berkowitz (1991), United States v. McClellan (1999)
34 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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. § 371 · 18 U.S.C. § 373 · 18 U.S.C. § 844 · 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 26 U.S.C. § 5861 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968)
Relies on Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Delaware v. Fensterer · Mathews v. United States · Morgan v. United States · Beard v. Whitley County REMC
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘It is not the obligation of this court to research and construct the legal arguments open to parties, especially when they are represented by counsel.’ [Sanchez v. Miller, 792 F.2d 694 , 703 (7th Cir.1986), cert. denied, 479 U.S. 1056 [ 107 S.Ct. 933 , 93 L.Ed.2d 984 ] (1987) ].... Williams has failed even to identify the facts necessary to support the issue he raises. Although the United States Attorney has made a fine attempt to identify the ‘certain conversations’ that Williams claims should have been admitted, this is not the government’s responsibility. Neither this court nor the United States Attorney has a duty to comb the record in order to discover possible errors. Williams, therefore, has waived this issue.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]t is not the obligation of this court to research and construct the legal arguments open to parties, especially when they are represented by counsel.”
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.