United States v. Wells’s Empirical Analysis
430 F.2d 225 · 1970
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently March 2015
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 13 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. § 545 · 26 U.S.C. § 7237
Relies on Brady v. United States · McMann v. Richardson · Leary v. United States · Parker v. North Carolina · United States v. Covington
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We have grave doubts as to Wells’ wisdom in pressing his motion for leave to withdraw his plea. If he is ultimately successful, we know of nothing to prevent the government from reviving the two counts that were dismissed by the trial judge.... Wells could thus find himself once more confronted with a possible conviction under Count I, and very severe penalties under that count that he escaped by entering the plea.””
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.