United States v. Velte’s Empirical Analysis
331 F.3d 673 · 2003
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2021
3 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1855
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Federal Deposit Insurance v. Meyer · United States v. X-Citement Video, Inc. · Carter v. United States · United States v. Sitton
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whoever, willfully and without authority, sets on fire any timber, underbrush, or grass or other inflammable material upon the public domain or upon any lands owned or leased by or under the partial, concurrent, or exclusive jurisdiction of the United States ... shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“in accordance with [their] ordinary or natural meaning.”
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.