Wilson v. Bell’s Empirical Analysis
137 F.2d 716 · 1943
Citation profile
48 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently October 2006 · most notably United States v. Villano (1987), Kennedy v. United States (1964)
48 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 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 Ex parte Lange · McNally v. Hill · United States v. Benz · In re Bonner · Holiday v. Johnston
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the judgment in a criminal case is the pronouncement by the judge from the bench, not the entry of the judgment by the clerk. The actual authority for execution of the judgment is the sentence, and the commitment functions to make the judgment of the court effective.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“‘ . . Sentencing should not be a game in which a wrong move by the judge means immunity for the prisoner. . . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Chambers 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.