United States v. Wainer’s Empirical Analysis
170 F.2d 603 · 1948
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently March 1995 · most notably 123 Wash. 2d 794 - State v. Staley (1994), United States v. Landry (1958)
35 federal appellate · 4 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 659
Relies on The People v. Rubin · Cherry v. United States · Caringella v. United States · United States v. Winnicki
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To ‘possess’ means to have actual control, care and management of, and not a passing control, fleeting and shadowy in its nature.””
5 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.