Whiting v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
321 F.2d 72 · 1963
Citation profile
59 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently July 1995 · most notably Notaro v. United States (1966), United States v. Gendron (1994)
59 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 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 Wong Sun v. United States · Jones v. United States · Draper v. United States · Roth v. United States · Sorrells 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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the inducement had come from parties having no connection with the government it would absolve him in no degree.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““So far as the second aspect is concerned, it could not possibly be ruled that the present defendant must prevail. Although it may be inferred that he concluded so to do because of Peterson’s (the Government agent) references to ‘clubs’ or to mutual acquaintances, the defendant was the first to mention the subject of narcotics. He was also the first to raise the question of personal use. His remarks were scarcely oblique. When Peterson, a person whose only credentials were the alleged mutual acquaintances, disclosed an interest in making a purchase, it could hardly be said that the defendant’s immediate response was indicative of a weak will converted by government temptation. At best, this was a question of fact for the jury.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““We suggest, what we take to be in accord with Accardi v. United States, 5 Cir., 1958, 257 F.2d 168 , cert. den. 358 U.S. 883 , 79 S.Ct. 124 , 3 L.Ed.2d 112 , that once government inducement has been shown there, are two issues. The government should establish that it engaged in no conduct that was shocking or offensive per se, and that the defendant was not, in fact, corrupted by the inducement.””
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.