United States v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
923 F.2d 76 · 1991
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently May 2010 · most notably United States v. Rice (2006), United States v. Richards (1992)
22 federal appellate · 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 924
Relies on Carnegie v. United States · Scharffe v. Perkins · Arkansas Public Service Commission v. Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. · United States v. Jones · United States v. Adkins
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the Manual of Model Criminal Instructions for the District Courts of the Eighth Circuit ..., it is stated that `the Committee believes that in most cases the word "knowingly”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]n indictment is not fatally defective, though it fails to allege felonious intent, if its wording parallels the statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“does not need to be defined.' Clearly, it was not plain error to omit such a definition.”
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.