United States v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
342 F.2d 43 · 1965
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2009 · most notably Harris v. Rivera (1981), United States v. McCord (1975)
28 federal appellate · 4 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. § 659
Relies on Dombrowski v. Pfister · United States v. Garguilo · United States v. De Sisto · United States v. Maybury · United States v. Lefkowitz
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“merely difficult to find a truly satisfying explanation for the differing conclusions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Tucker“wholly irreconcilable with any rational theory.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rivera v. Harris
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.