United States v. Welliver’s Empirical Analysis
601 F.2d 203 · 1979
Citation profile
49 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently August 1991 · most notably United States v. Cauble (1983), United States v. L'Hoste (1980)
49 federal appellate · 2 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
Relies on Berger v. United States · Sandstrom v. Montana · Russell v. United States · Gotthelf v. Commissioner · Hartman 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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) reckless disregard of the interest of the bank is the equivalent of intent to injure or defraud the bank.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(t)o act with intent to defraud means to act willfully and with a specific intent to deceive or to cheat,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“makes any false entry in any book, report, or statement of such bank with intent to injure or defraud”
2 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.