Webb v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
216 F.2d 151 · 1954
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2007
11 federal appellate · 1 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 18 U.S.C. § 474
Relies on Woods v. Durr · Michener 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . Congress . . . provided, in the portion of the statute with which we are here concerned, that the mere making on an impression in the likeness of an obligation or security issued by the United States is a violation of the statute without proof of unlawful intent. The legislative purpose is clear that Congress intended, in protecting the currency, to tolerate no manipulation in the making of impressions of government obligations or securities, whether the copies or impressions might be good or bad, and regardless of the purpose for which they might be made.” 216 F.2d at 152 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Whoever prints, photographs, or in any other manner makes or executes any engraving, photograph, print, or impression in the likeness of any such obligation or other security, or any part thereof, ... [s]hall be fined ... or imprisoned_”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the printing . . . of . . . any . . . obligation or other security of the United States”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Regan v. Time, Inc.
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.