United States v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
568 federal appellate · 93 district · 57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,839 later decisions (21 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably Reno v. Koray (1995), Dada v. Mukasey (2008)
568 federal appellate · 93 district · 57 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedUnited States v. Wilson (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Turkette · Russello v. United States · Gladstone, Realtors v. Village of Bellwood · United States Railroad Retirement Board v. Fritz · Gwaltney of Smithfield, Ltd. v. Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Inc.
Cited together with Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Anders v. California · Gall v. United States · Reno v. Koray · United States v. Booker
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 1,839 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Congress' use of a verb tense is significant in construing statutes.”
107 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“does not authorize a district court to compute the credit at sentencing.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage“The sentence of imprisonment of any person convicted of an offense shall commence to run from the date on which such person is received at the penitentiary, reformatory, or jail for service of such sen-fence. The Attorney General shall give any such person credit toward service of his sentence for any days spent in custody in connection with the offense or acts for which sentence was imposed. As used in this section, the term “offense” means any criminal offense ... which is in violation of an Act of Congress and is triable in any court established by Act of Congress. No sentence shall prescribe any other method of computing the term.”
4 later decisions 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.