United States v. Willard’s Empirical Analysis
919 F.2d 606 · 1990
Citation profile
72 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 128 later decisions — most recently June 2020 · most notably United States v. Roederer (1993), United States v. Pitts (1993)
72 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 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
Relies on Arizona v. Roberson · United States v. Zweber · United States v. Leon Guerrero · United States v. Moreno (89-1150/1208) · United States v. Restrepo
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.
“clearly improbable that the weapon was connected with the offense.”
22 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The proximity of guns and drugs is usually circumstantial evidence of possession during commission of a drug offense,”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'an ingredient of the offense charged' " to be part of the "same course of conduct or common scheme or plan.”
5 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.