United States v. Webb’s Empirical Analysis
433 F.2d 400 · 1970
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 4 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably United States v. Johnson (1973), 87 Wash. 2d 363 - State v. Newton (1976)
35 federal appellate · 4 district · 22 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. § 2312 · 18 U.S.C. § 4244 · 18 U.S.C. § 5010 · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Brady v. United States · McCarthy v. United States · MacHibroda v. United States · Halliday v. United States · United States of America Ex Rel. John McGrath v. J. E. Lavallee, Warden of Clinton Prison, Dannemora, New York
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It should be enough if there is sufficient evidence for a jury to conclude that he is guilty.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“, CrR 4.2(d) provides that ”[t]he court shall not enter a judgment upon a plea of guilty unless it is satisfied that there is a factual basis for the plea.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he court need not be convinced beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant is in fact guilty.”
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.