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Wall v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

65 F.2d 993 · 1933

Citation profile

32
cited by 32 later decisions
1
cited 1 times by the Supreme Court
2
states following
February 1982
most recently cited

29 federal appellate · 2 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 32 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1982 · most notably Sherman v. United States (1958), United States v. Jannotti (1982)

29 federal appellate · 2 state decisions

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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 Sorrells v. United States · Hunter 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “... if they took advantage of the sympathy appellant would naturally have for Isabel Knowles because of their former illicit intimate relations and thereby induced appellant to put the agents in touch with Zarata to pander to her craving for morphine, and he was acting solely in the belief that by doing so he would alleviate her suffering, and he was not in any other way interested in the unlawful sale, this would amount to entrapment, and the conviction could not be sustained... . [20]”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. State v. Taylor
  2. “it was error to refuse to charge on the question of entrapment.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. United States v. Carroll
  3. “might put her in touch with some Latin doctor in Ybor City”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. United States v. Carroll

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.