United States v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
899 F.2d 1526 · 1990
Citation profile
62 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently June 2015 · most notably United States v. Layne (1999), United States v. Day (1992)
62 federal appellate · 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. § 3551 (Mandatory Victims Restitution Act of 1996) · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 851 (§ 411 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on McCarthy v. United States · New York Shipping Ass'n v. Federal Maritime Commission · United States v. Noland · United States v. Olson
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No person who stands convicted of an offense under this part shall be sentenced to increased punishment by reason of one or more prior convictions, unless before trial ... the United States attorney files an information with the court (and serves a copy of such information on the person or counsel for the person) stating in writing the previous convictions to be relied upon.... Clerical mistakes in the information may be amended at any time prior to the pronouncement of sentence.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Williams had absolutely no notice of an enhanced sentence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the court must hold a hearing to resolve the issues raised by the response [of the defendant].”
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.