United States v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
639 F.2d 500 · 1981
Citation profile
74 federal appellate · 6 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 104 later decisions — most recently August 2015 · most notably United States v. Aguilar (1989), United States v. Mangieri (1982)
74 federal appellate · 6 district · 10 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 Abney v. United States · Oyler v. Boles · United States v. MacDonald · Bassett Furniture Industries, Inc. v. Bravman · Fitzpatrick v. Bitzer
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 104 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“have not shown, as the Oaksm test requires, that other[ 9 ] similarly situated who have not exercised their rights have not been prosecuted. The statistics listed above show that there were other prosecutions and the Wilsons have not shown that those defendants were also tax protestors. This being so, we cannot find that the Wilsons carried their burden of proving that the decision to prosecute was made because they exercised their constitutional rights.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) That others are generally not prosecuted for the same conduct; (2) The decision to prosecute this defendant was based upon impermissible grounds such as race, religion or the exercise of constitutional rights.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“are generally not prosecuted for the same conduct.”
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.