Widney v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
178 F.2d 880 · 1949
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently September 1968 · most notably Lundgren v. Freeman (1962), Benton v. Commissioner (1952)
34 federal appellate · 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 Bradley v. United States · Gary Theatre Co. v. Columbia Pictures Corp. · Coleman v. United States · Grip Nut Co. v. Sharp
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“findings of fact shall not be set aside unless clearly erroneous * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lundgren v. Freeman
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.