United States v. Welden’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
115 federal appellate · 18 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 265 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2021 · most notably United States National Bank v. Independent Insurance Agents of America, Inc. (1993), National Ass'n of Home Builders v. Defenders of Wildlife (2007)
115 federal appellate · 18 district · 16 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 15 U.S.C. § 1 (§ 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 32 (Sherman Antitrust Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 77V (§ 22 of the Securities Act of 1933) · 15 U.S.C. § 8 (Wilson Tariff Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 3486 (§ 248 of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996) · 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 18 U.S.C. § 3731 · 1 U.S.C. § 204
Relies on Irvin v. Dowd · Edwin Hale v. William Henkel · Rideau v. Louisiana · Ullmann v. United States · Fourco Glass Company v. Transmirra Products Corporation
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 265 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he Code cannot prevail over the Statutes at Large when the two are inconsistent.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[a]mendments by implication, like repeals by implication, are not favored.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“made by a codifier without the approval of Congress . . . should be given no weight.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.