Wilson v. Watson’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently September 2005
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 18 U.S.C. § 209 · 20 U.S.C. § 107 (Randolph-Sheppard Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1339 · 28 U.S.C. § 1361 · 28 U.S.C. § 2201 · 39 U.S.C. § 501 · 44 U.S.C. § 307 · 5 U.S.C. § 702
Relies on Federal Crop Ins Corporation v. Merrill · Larson v. Domestic & Foreign Commerce Corp. · Perkins v. Lukens Steel Co. · Tennessee Electric Power Co. v. Tennessee Valley Authority · Mine Safety Appliances Co. v. Forrestal
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Court does not interpret 20 U.S.C. § 107 so as to give licensed blind persons the exclusive right to operate vending machines in buildings controlled by the Post Office Department.”
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.