United States v. Wiley’s Empirical Analysis
492 F.2d 547 · 1973
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently June 2005 · most notably United States v. Staten (1978), United States v. Raper (1982)
17 federal appellate · 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
Relies on Consolidation Coal Co. v. South-East Coal Co. · Wood v. United States · Cella v. United States · Ewing v. United States · Gass v. United States
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An examination of these rationales reveals a tangled web of legitimate concerns, out dated beliefs, and deep-seated prejudices.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“an accusation easily to be made and hard to be proved, and harder to be defended by the party accused, tho never so innocent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“may corroborate the occurrence of some event, it does not corroborate sexual intercourse.”
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.