Webb v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
347 F.2d 363 · 1965
Citation profile
22 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently February 2025
22 federal appellate ·
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. § 1708
Relies on Knapp v. United States · United States v. Hines · United States v. Zimple
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We have no doubt that the proof of the routine procedures * * * in the preparation and mailing of *- * * checks is sufficient to support a permissible inference that this particular check reached the United States mails. It is true that the testimony relating to mailing does not single out the particular check in any manner nor does it negate all possibilities that might strip appellant’s possession of the cheek of its criminal aspects. But the jury’s function is broad enough to allow it to make common sense inferences from proven facts and the burden of the Government in this type of case does not require it to negate all unlikely but possible facets of innocence.””
2 later decisions 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.