Weaver v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
298 F.2d 496 · 1962
Citation profile
43 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably Government of the Virgin Islands v. Gereau (1975), United States v. White (1980)
43 federal appellate · 3 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. § 5205 · 26 U.S.C. § 7206
Relies on Stern v. Board of Levee Commissioners · Johnson v. Stevenson · Libby, McNeill & Libby v. Alaska Industrial Board · Safeway Stores, Inc. v. Oklahoma Retail Grocers Ass'n · United States v. Bloom
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if upon the whole evidence it may be inferred that the crime was committed where the venue was laid, that is sufficient.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“capable of immediate and accurate determination by resort to easily accessible sources of indisputable accuracy . . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(t)he courts take judicial notice of the boundaries of the nation, of the location of states and territories . . . .”
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.