United States v. Wilhelm’s Empirical Analysis
570 F.2d 461 · 1978
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently August 1995 · most notably Solina v. United States (1983), Frendak v. United States (1979)
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 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. § 7205 · 28 U.S.C. § 1654
Relies on Faretta v. California · Gideon v. Wainwright · Argersinger v. Hamlin · Starnes v. Penrod Drilling Co. · Patterson 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Defendants ask us to construe the Sixth Amendment's reference to "Counsel" as embracing any person of their choice, be he unskilled in the law or barred by the rules of court from practice before it. To so hold would profoundly alter the legal framework in which criminal proceedings are scrupulously conducted in our courts. We decline to do so.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Any individual required to supply information to his employer under section '3402 who wilfully supplies false or fraudulent information, or who wilfully fails to supply information thereunder which would require an increase in the tax to be withheld under section 3402, shall, in lieu of any other penalty provided by law (except the penalty provided by section 6682), upon conviction thereof be fined not more than $500, or imprisoned not more than 1 year, or both.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[E]very person so accused and indicted for [treason or other capital offences] shall also be allowed and admitted to make his full defence by counsel learned in the law.”
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.