United States v. Wencke’s Empirical Analysis
604 F.2d 607 · 1979
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently February 2019
9 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 United States v. Marion · Costello v. United States · United States v. Lovasco · Yates v. United States · Donaldson 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The term 'Attorney General' as employed in the [statutory] language should not be taken to exclude United States Attorneys or other Department of Justice personnel ....”
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.