United States v. Warledo’s Empirical Analysis
557 F.2d 721 · 1977
Citation profile
50 federal appellate · 2 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2022 · most notably United States v. Culbert (1978), United States v. Padilla (1987)
50 federal appellate · 2 district · 11 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. § 1951 (Hobbs Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 1992 · 26 U.S.C. § 5861 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968)
Relies on Johnson v. Zerbst · Faretta v. California · Von Moltke v. Gillies · Henderson v. Morgan · Gerry 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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The courts have quite uniformly condemned the introduction in evidence of testimony concerning dangerous weapons, even though found in the possession of a defendant, which have nothing to do with the crime charged. * * * "”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the total circumstances of [this] individual case, including background, experience and the conduct of the accused person,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“As used in this section— "(1) The term 'robbery' means the unlawful taking or obtaining of personal property from the person or in the presence of another, against his will, by means of actual or threatened force, or violence, or fear of injury, immediate or future, to his person or property, or property in his custody or possession, or the person or property of a relative or member of his family or of anyone in his company at the time of the taking or obtaining. "(2) The term 'extortion' means the obtaining of property from another, with his consent, induced by wrongful use of actual or threatened force, violence, or fear, or under color of official right. "(3) The term 'commerce' means commerce within the District of Columbia, or any Territory or Possession of the United States; all commerce between any point in a State, Territory, Possession, or the District of Columbia and any point outside thereof; all commerce between points within the same State through any place outside such State; and all other commerce over which the United States has jurisdiction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.