United States v. Wiesenfeld Warehouse Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
53 federal appellate · 18 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 171 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2016 · most notably United States v. Park (1975), United States v. Bradley (1972)
53 federal appellate · 18 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 18 U.S.C. § 3731 · 21 U.S.C. § 331 (Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 342 (Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act)
Relies on United States v. Dotterweich · United States v. Balint · United States v. Sullivan · Lion Manufacturing Corp. v. McGuire
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 171 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“have been contaminated with filth or whereby it”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“dispenses with the conventional requirement for criminal conduct--awareness of some wrongdoing. In the interest of the larger good it puts the burden of acting at hazard upon a person otherwise innocent but standing in responsible relation to a public danger. United States v. Balint, 258 U.S. [250, 42 S.Ct. 301, 66 L.Ed. 604 (1922) ].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The separate offense of adulteration ... is concerned solely with deterioration or contamination of the commodity itself.”
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.