United States v. Waters’s Empirical Analysis
175 F.2d 340 · 1948
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2022
5 federal appellate · 13 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. § 3731
Relies on United States v. Borden Co. · United States v. Cook · United States v. Hastings · United States v. Wayne Pump Co. · 60 Cal. App. 163 - People v. Ross
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No person shall within the District of Columbia carry either openly or concealed on or about his person, except in his dwelling house or place of business.or on other land possessed by him, a pistol, without a license therefor issued as hereinafter provided, or any deadly or dangerous weapon capable of being so concealed * *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“We must be guided in determining the question of appealability of the trial' court’s action not by the name the court gave it but by what in legal effect it actually was.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Selman 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.