United States v. Wells’s Empirical Analysis
127 F.3d 739 · 1997
Citation profile
61 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently August 2020 · most notably United States v. Honken (1999), United States v. Hadash (2005)
61 federal appellate · 1 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
Relies on Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Stirone v. United States · United States v. Gaudin · United States v. Miller · Ford 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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“mean[s] just that--the loss the defendant intended to cause to the victim.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a court determines either that the defendant intended to succeed to the full extent of the fraud, or that there was no evidence that the defendant intended to cause less than the greatest possible loss ... in those circumstances, the intended loss can properly be measured by the possible loss”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“any participant who is less culpable than most other participants, but whose role could not be described as minimal.”
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.