Whiting v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
296 F.2d 512 · 1961
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably United States v. Dickens (1975), United States v. Webster (1981)
42 federal appellate · 16 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 Kotteakos v. United States · Sorrells v. United States · Sherman v. United States · Reserve Life Insurance v. Bankers Life & Casualty Co. · United States v. Sherman
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is fundamental that to qualify a witness as competent to give testimony concerning a defendant’s character and reputation in the community it is usually required that there be a showing that the statements uttered by the witness are representative. * * * In short, there must be some demonstrable basis evincing the competence of the witness to give his opinion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fields v. State“the readiness and celerity with which a defendant comported with government overtones . . .”
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.