United States v. Wight’s Empirical Analysis
839 F.2d 193 · 1987
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently July 2017
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 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. § 201 (Bank Bribery Amendments) · 26 U.S.C. § 7206
Relies on Parklane Hosiery Co. v. Shore · Commissioner v. Sunnen · Blonder-Tongue Laboratories, Inc. v. University of Illinois Foundation · Emich Motors Corporation v. General Motors Corporation · Marchetti 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a defendant is precluded [by collateral estoppel] from retrying issues [in a criminal information] necessary to his plea agreement in a later civil suit”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Williams v. Comm'r
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.