Watson v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
224 F.2d 910 · 1955
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently April 1988 · most notably United States v. Maxwell (1967), Alexander v. United States (1961)
26 federal appellate · 2 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 26 U.S.C. § 3321 · 26 U.S.C. § 7302
Relies on Blockburger v. United States · Weeks v. United States · Burdeau v. McDowell · Byars v. United States · Lustig 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The use of secondary evidence will * * * be Justified * * * if it be shown by competent evidence that the Government or its agents had destroyed the original and primary evidence in its possession without any fraudulent purpose or any intent to create an excuse for its nonproduction. Riggs v. Tayloe, 9 Wheat. 483 , 487, 6 L.Ed. 140 ; 20 Am. Jur., Evidence, Sec. 438 ; 4 Wigmore on Evidence, 3rd ed., Sec. 1198.””
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.