United States v. Weitzenhoff’s Empirical Analysis
35 F.3d 1275 · 1994
Citation profile
55 federal appellate · 10 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 101 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably Hangarter v. Provident Life & Accident Insurance (2004), United States v. Burrows (1994)
55 federal appellate · 10 district · 5 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. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 33 U.S.C. § 1251 (Alternative Water Sources Act of 2000) · 33 U.S.C. § 1311 · 33 U.S.C. § 1319 · 33 U.S.C. § 1362 · 42 U.S.C. § 6928
Relies on Morissette v. United States · Connally v. General Construction Co. · United States v. Dunnigan · Local 408, International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. National Labor Relations Board · Ratzlaf et Ux 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 101 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if the statutory prohibition involves conduct of a select group of persons having specialized knowledge, and the challenged phraseology is indigenous to the idiom of that class, the standard is lowered and a court may uphold a statute which uses words or phrases having a technical or other special meaning, well enough known to enable those within its reach to correctly apply them.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is well settled, however, that the judge instructs the jury in the law. 'Resolving doubtful questions of law is the distinct and exclusive province of the trial judge.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Weitzenhoff and Mariani were knowledgeable in the wastewater field and can be expected to have understood what the permit meant. In particular, they should have known that it did not give them license to dump thousands of gallons of partially treated sewage into the ocean on a regular basis.”
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.