United States v. Wells’s Empirical Analysis
63 F.3d 745 · 1995
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2013 · most notably United States v. Wells (1997), United States v. Jobe (1996)
28 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1001 (Comprehensive Thrift and Bank Fraud Prosecution and Taxpayer Recovery Act of 1990) · 18 U.S.C. § 1005 · 18 U.S.C. § 1014 · 18 U.S.C. § 287 · 18 U.S.C. § 371
Relies on Burks v. United States · United States v. Gaudin · California v. ARC America Corp. · Johnson v. Mississippi · Fort Wayne Books, Inc. v. Indiana
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any false statement or report ... for the purpose of influencing in any way”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the materiality issue was hotly disputed”
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.