United States v. Webb’s Empirical Analysis
747 F.2d 278 · 1984
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably United States v. Gordon (1986), United States v. Chaney (1992)
44 federal appellate · 5 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. § 7
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Broadrick v. Oklahoma · New York v. Ferber · Turner v. United States · United States v. Bailey
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not whether the indictment could have been framed in a more satisfactory manner, but whether it conforms to minimal constitutional standards.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]o be sufficient, an indictment needs only to allege each essential element of the offense charged so as to enable the accused to prepare his defense and ... to invoke the double jeopardy clause in any subsequent proceeding”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he law does not compel a ritual of words.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.