Williams
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 399 U.S. 508 - Morris v. Schoonfield · 1970Most cited · 287 citing opinions
at minimum, that in imposing fines as punishment for criminal conduct more care must be taken to provide for those whose lack of funds would otherwise automatically convert a fine into a jail sentence.
How often courts cite the case defining “Williams”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Williams” — 287 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.