Williams v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
984 F.2d 28 · 1993
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably United States v. Cook (1993), Reyes v. Keane (1996)
23 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Griggs v. Provident Consumer Discount Co. · United States v. Hayman · Heflin v. United States · Berman v. United States · Machibroda 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'a motion under 2255 is a further step in the movant's criminal case and not a separate civil action,' " the Second Circuit concluded that such a motion "is not subject to Rule 58 of the civil rules.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“appears to be the result of instructions from the Administrative Office of the United States Courts.” See Williams v. United States, 984 F.2d 28 , 29-30 n. 1 (2d Cir.1993) (citing 11 Administrative Office of the United States Courts, Guide to Judiciary Policies and Procedures: Statistics Manual ch. V, § III(C) (1989)).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“However, the instruction also requires recording the motion and its outcome on the original criminal docket.” Id. This practice appears to be contrary to the dictates of Rule 3 of the Rules Governing § 2255 Proceedings. Rule 3 provides”
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.