United States v. Weaver’s Empirical Analysis
207 F.2d 796 · 1953
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2013 · most notably Rex Trailer Company v. United States (1956), United States ex rel. Carter v. Halliburton Co. (2013)
23 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 28 U.S.C. § 2462
Relies on United States Marcus v. Hess · Huntington v. Attrill · United States v. Summerlin · Board of Com'rs of Jackson County Kan v. United States · Guaranty Trust Co of New York v. United States
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This is not a criminal prosecution; it is not a civil action for a penalty; it is a civil action to recover an award of damages of a compensatory nature, payable to the United States for injuries to its property rights.”
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.