Welch v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
371 F.2d 287 · 1966
Citation profile
75 federal appellate · 3 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 96 later decisions — most recently March 2007 · most notably 46 Ill. 2d 348 - The People v. Hairston (1970), Gordon v. United States (1971)
75 federal appellate · 3 district · 12 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 26 U.S.C. § 7201
Relies on Napue v. People of the State of Illinois · Irvin v. Dowd · Sheppard v. Maxwell · Estes v. Texas · Dennis 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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * evidence tending to prove a material fact although incidentally showing the defendant to have committed another crime * * * is not inadmissible because of a potential side effect.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Farrar v. State · Chapa v. State““To conclude that appellant was denied a fair trial because of the factual reporting . . . requires the application of dual presumptions: that the jurors were both -exposed to the publicity and were prejudiced, thereby. The law will presume neither . . . .” [Emphasis added]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““. . . evidence of unlawful conduct, material to the crime charged, should not be admitted if its admission diverts the case into a ‘trial within a trial’ and in actuality exposes the defendant to a conviction for a crime not charged. . 371 F.2d at 294 (Citations omitted).”
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.