United States v. Welch’s Empirical Analysis
15 F.3d 1202 · 1993
Citation profile
55 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably United States of America v. Anthony Gibbs Richard Hough Donneto Berry Chad Gibbs Robert Curtis Lamont Needum Antwan Woods (1999), United States v. Wong (1994)
55 federal appellate · 5 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3500 · 18 U.S.C. § 5031 · 18 U.S.C. § 5032 · 18 U.S.C. § 5033 · 18 U.S.C. § 5037 · 18 U.S.C. § 5038 · 18 U.S.C. § 921 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Gault · Carnegie v. United States · Bordenkircher v. Hayes · Starnes v. Penrod Drilling Co. · United States v. Dixon
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] motion for severance is committed to the sound discretion of the trial court, and we review only for a manifest abuse of discretion resulting in a miscarriage of justice.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“once having established that certain acts of the offense occurred after the defendant's eighteenth birthday, the entire case may be tried in accordance with the adult rules of procedure and evidence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The term 'alleged act,' as used in § 5031, means the alleged offense, not each separate act comprising the offense.”
2 later decisions 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.