Wiborg v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
163 U.S. 632 · 1896
Citation profile
462 federal appellate · 34 district · 74 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 683 later decisions (63 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2022 · most notably United States v. Olano (1993), United States v. Young (1985)
462 federal appellate · 34 district · 74 state decisions — followed in 22 states
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 Crain v. United States · Simmons v. United States · Clune v. United States · St. Clair 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 683 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]f a plain error was committed in a matter so absolutely vital to defendants, we feel ourselves at liberty to correct it.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Whoever, within the territory or jurisdiction of the United States, begins, or sets on foot, or provides or prepares the means for, any military expedition or enterprise, to be carried on from thence against the territory or dominions of any foreign prince or state, or of any colony, district, or people, with whom the United States are at peace, shall be fined not more than three thousand dollars and imprisoned not more than three years.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It [the Neutrality Act] was undoubtedly designed in general to secure neutrality in wars between two other nations, or between contending parties recognized as belligerents, but its operation is not necessarily dependent on the existence of such state of belligerency.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The Three Friends · Lucy H.
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.