Webster v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
59 F.2d 583 · 1932
Citation profile
15 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently September 1990
15 federal appellate ·
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 Allis v. United States · Boyd v. United States · Prussian v. United States · Harvey v. Tyler · Stassi 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Whoever, with intent to defraud ... attempts to pass, utter, publish, or sell ... any falsely made, forged, counterfeited, or altered obligation ... of the United States ... [shall be guilty of an offense].””
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.