United States v. Wexler’s Empirical Analysis
621 F.2d 1218 · 1980
Citation profile
20 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2014 · most notably Angrist v. United States (1980), United States v. Reed (1981)
20 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1014 · 18 U.S.C. § 2311 (Anti Car Theft Act of 1992) · 18 U.S.C. § 2314 · 18 U.S.C. § 371
Relies on Babich v. United States · Rodriguez v. United States · Streeter v. United States · Brown v. Texas · Helfat v. Securities & Exchange Commission
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.
“securities are 'instruments which have intrinsic value and are recognized and used as such in the regular channels of commerce,' " id. at 1223 (citing United States v. Canton, 470 F.2d 861 , 864 (2d Cir.1972)) (emphasis in original), and that "it appears that the decision in each case depends upon the particular facts of that case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“tracks the language of the statute and sufficiently sets forth the elements of the crime charged.”
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.