Whaley v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
362 F.2d 938 · 1966
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1343 · 18 U.S.C. § 1621
Relies on Douglas v. Alabama · Prado Oil & Gas Co. v. Federal Power Commission · Charles H. Prysock v. United States · Byrnes v. United States · Woxberg 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While circumstantial evidence may support a conviction, it must be adequately sufficient to enable a reasonable determination that it excludes every hypothesis except that of guilt (citations).”
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.