United States v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
894 F.2d 208 · 1990
Citation profile
93 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 128 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably United States v. Perry (1990), United States v. Duncan (1990)
93 federal appellate ·
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. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 3551 (Mandatory Victims Restitution Act of 1996) · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Pinkerton v. United States · Alexander v. United States · McKesson Corp. v. Division of Alcoholic Beverages & Tobacco · United States v. Mejia-Orosco · United States v. Thomas
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 128 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“organizer, leader, manager or supervisor”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“is a factual one, which, upon appellate review, is subject to the clearly erroneous standard,”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“the defendant's conduct or the conduct of co-conspirators in furtherance of the conspiracy was known to defendant or was reasonably foreseeable.”
3 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.