Williams v. People

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• observing that “[w]hen providing the instructions to the jury, the trial court . . . was only required to correctly state the law . . . [and] is not obligate to use the language the defendant proffers.”
• defining consent as the “acquiescence by a person of age or with requisite mental capacity who is not under duress or coercion”
• defining consent as the “acquiescence by a person of age or with requisite mental capacity who is not under duress or coercion”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

28 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Nicholas v. People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2012-06-06· cited 33×
• Webster v. People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2014-03-05· cited 27×
• Galloway v. People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2012-12-05· cited 22×
• Jackson-Flavius v. People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2012-12-17· cited 21×
• Christopher v. People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2012-09-28· cited 20×
• Brown v. People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2012-05-24· cited 18×
• Rawlins v. People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2013-03-01· cited 18×
• Joseph v. Inter-Ocean Insurance Agency, Inc.
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2013-09-25· cited 14×
• Boynes v. Transportation Services of St. John, Inc.
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2014-01-17· cited 14×
• Thomas v. Virgin Islands Board of Land Use Appeals
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2014-02-24· cited 14×
• Rivera v. People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2016-05-04· cited 12×
• Sonson v. People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2013-09-09· cited 11×
• Hughes v. People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2013-10-31· cited 11×
• Thomas v. People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2015-08-13· cited 11×
• Pichierri v. Crowley
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2013-10-25· cited 10×
• Francis v. People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2015-10-23· cited 10×
• Ubiles v. People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2017-05-25· cited 10×
• Public Employees Relation Board v. United Industrial Workers-Seafarers International Union
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2012-03-05· cited 7×
• Gumbs v. People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2013-09-20· cited 7×
• Morton v. People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2013-09-13· cited 6×

Cites

18 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Johnson v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1997-05-12· cited 4,572×
• Carella v. California
  Supreme Court· 1989-08-30· cited 686×
• United States v. Cerrato-Reyes
  Tenth Circuit· 1999-05-05· cited 96×
• United States v. Luis A. Flores
  Third Circuit· 2006-07-21· cited 94×
• John Bethel v. McAllister Brothers, Inc. Frank J. Huesser Thomas Bethel, as Administrator of the Estate of John Bethel
  Third Circuit· 1996-04-17· cited 85×
• United States v. Petersen
  Third Circuit· 2010-10-01· cited 83×
• Pell v. EI DuPont De Nemours & Co. Inc.
  Third Circuit· 2008-08-08· cited 75×
• United States v. Jones
  Third Circuit· 2009-05-20· cited 71×
• Blyden v. People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2010-07-07· cited 68×
• In Re Truong
  Third Circuit· 2008-01-16· cited 49×
• Phillips v. People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2009-03-12· cited 47×
• Nanton v. People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2009-12-23· cited 43×
• Francis v. People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2009-11-19· cited 42×
• The United States of America v. Nicholas A. Stirone
  Third Circuit· 1963-03-04· cited 40×
• Phipps v. People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2011-02-14· cited 40×
• Farrell v. People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2011-03-03· cited 29×
• United States v. Carbo
  Third Circuit· 2009-07-09· cited 19×
• United States v. Martin
  Tenth Circuit· 2008-06-09· cited 18×