United States v. Webster’s Empirical Analysis
468 F.2d 769 · 1972
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 1 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently May 1999 · most notably United States v. Carr (1984), Iaea v. Sunn (1986)
21 federal appellate · 1 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 18 U.S.C. § 2113 · 18 U.S.C. § 924
Relies on Kercheval v. United States · Kadwell v. United States · Everett v. United States · Gearhart v. United States · Boyer v. Bealor
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n determining whether [the defendant] presented a plausible reason to support his motion, the weight to be given the evidence and the credibility of the witnesses 'is primarily a matter entrusted to the district court.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“It has long been clear that leave to withdraw a guilty plea should be freely granted prior to sentencing where there is a fair and just reason for doing so . . . .”
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.