Welch v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
105 federal appellate · 4 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 141 later decisions — most recently November 2015 · most notably United States v. Edwards (1995), United States v. Sababu (1989)
105 federal appellate · 4 district · 5 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Simpson v. United States · Henry v. City of Detroit Manpower Department · Wilborn v. Escalderon · Leyvas v. United States
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.