Wilson v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
335 F.2d 982 · 1963
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently March 1985 · most notably Ross v. United States (1965), Powell v. United States (1965)
37 federal appellate · 3 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
Relies on Husty v. United States · United States v. Daugherty · Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Reddish · Nickens v. United States · Kelly 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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is settled that ‘the uncorroborated testimony of a narcotics agent is sufficient to support conviction for violation of the narcotics laws.’ Wilson v. United States, * * * 335 F.2d 982, 983 . No authoritative utterance of this court is to the contrary.” 365 F. 2d at 523 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“We recognize, of course, that the imposition of sentence is in the sound discretion of the District Judge.”
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.