United States v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
985 F.2d 749 · 1993
Citation profile
55 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2024 · most notably United States v. Infante (2005), United States v. Garcia (2001)
55 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Glasser v. United States · United States v. Frady · Pinkerton v. United States · Douglas v. Alabama
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“need not have actual or constructive possession of the drugs to be guilty of aiding and abetting possession with intent to distribute.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[n]o evidence was discovered that [the chemist] pilfered or used cocaine in any form”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) the prosecution withheld evidence of Maddox's misconduct in violation of Brady v. State of Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 , 83 S.Ct. 1194 , 10 L.Ed.2d 215 (1963); (2) the newly discovered evidence entitled them to a new trial under United States v. Nixon, 881 F.2d 1305 (5th Cir.1989); and (3) Maddox's possible tampering with the drugs was a break in the chain of custody of the evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ellis v. State
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.