Weldon v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
196 F.2d 874 · 1952
Citation profile
33 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1994 · most notably Di Bella v. United States (1962), United States v. Martinson (1987)
33 federal appellate ·
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. § 152 · 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 2107
Relies on Go-Bart Importing Co. v. United States · Perlman v. United States · Cogen v. United States · Railroad Commission v. Maxcy · United States v. Poller
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Actually, as stated above, [Weldon] was not indicted or informed against. Hence no criminal action was pending against him when the petitions were filed. Hence both petitions were independent proceedings. Obviously, these were civil proceedings — in effect, civil actions to recover personal property and to enjoin an allegedly wrongful use thereof.”
1 later decision 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.