United States v. Wells’s Empirical Analysis
721 F.2d 1160 · 1983
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently November 2024 · most notably United States v. O'Connell (1988), United States v. Manzella (1986)
44 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 26 U.S.C. § 5861 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968)
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Patterson v. United States · Desist v. United States · National Ass'n for the Advancement of Colored People v. Federal Power Commission · Textile Workers Union v. Darlington Manufacturing Co.
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“be sufficient to convince the jury beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant is guilty.”
3 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.