United States v. Webb’s Empirical Analysis
533 F.2d 391 · 1976
Citation profile
65 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently July 2008 · most notably United States v. Jackson (1977), United States v. Robinson (1983)
65 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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 26 U.S.C. § 5845 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968) · 26 U.S.C. § 5861 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968)
Relies on Brown v. Illinois · Harris v. United States · Douglas v. Alabama · Barrett v. United States · United States v. Bayer
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether the evidence caused surprise to the defendant, whether he was given adequate opportunity to meet the proof, and whether the evidence was more detrimental to him because of the order in which it was introduced.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“All that is required is that at the time the officers observed the weapon in the car, they must have had a right to be in close proximity to the car at a point from which the observation occurred.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“undoubtedly within the discretion of the trial court,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.