Wigfall v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
230 F.2d 220 · 1956
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently December 1973 · most notably Hunt v. United States (1963), Jackson v. United States (1965)
25 federal appellate · 5 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 Glasser v. United States · Morton v. United States · Morton v. United States · Hammond v. United States · Wear 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the jury believed the testimony of the woman complainant, as they had a right to do, they might well have excluded every hypothesis save that of Wigfall’s guilt as a factual inference from the proven facts.””
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.