United States v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
985 F.2d 634 · 1993
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably United States v. Gendron (1994), United States of America v. George Varoudakis (2000)
38 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 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 Kotteakos v. United States · Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Davis v. Alaska · United States v. Tracey · United States v. Kepreos
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n essence, the government offered the evidence so they the jury would infer that, because Williams was or claimed to be a murderer, he was more likely than not also to be a cocaine trafficker who uses guns in his business.' Id. The case at bar is similar: here, too, the government failed to "place the evidence into any context, other than temporal, related to the development or operation of the drug conspiracy,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]o establish that the district court has abused its discretion, the defendant must show that the limitations imposed were clearly prejudicial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“evidence of his plan to establish and operate a cocaine distribution business by means of his modus operandi of intimidation.”
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.