United States v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
962 F.2d 1218 · 1992
Citation profile
168 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 257 later decisions — most recently December 2013 · most notably United States v. Carroll (1994), United States v. Layne (1999)
168 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 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 Terry v. Ohio · United States v. Cortez · Tristani v. Eastern Air Lines, Inc. · Illinois Power Co. v. Local Union No. 51, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers · Griffin v. United States
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 257 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'in the light most likely to support the district court's decision.'”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an organizer or leader of a criminal activity that involved five or more participants or was otherwise extensive.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“factual findings made in consideration of a motion to suppress evidence are to be upheld unless they are clearly erroneous [while] the district court's conclusions of law are subject to de novo review on appeal.”
2 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.