Wesson v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
172 F.2d 931 · 1949
Citation profile
54 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently May 2004 · most notably Admiral Theatre Corporation v. Douglas Theatre Company Jsb (1978), Fey v. Walston & Co. (1974)
54 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 United States v. Ross · Goldie v. Cox · Salinger v. United States · Massachusetts Protective Ass'n v. Mouber · Donnelly Garment Co. v. Dubinsky
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Inferences (to be made in every case) must be based upon proven facts or facts of which judicial notice [may] be taken and one inference cannot be based upon another inference. To sustain a finding of fact the circumstances proven must lead to the conclusion with reasonable certainty and must be of such probative force as to create the basis for a legal inference and not mere suspicion.” Wesson v. United States, 172 F.2d 931 , 933 (8 Cir. 1949).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.