United States v. Wesson’s Empirical Analysis
889 F.2d 134 · 1989
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently September 2011 · most notably United States v. McNeese (1990), United States v. Miller (1989)
27 federal appellate · 3 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 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 26 U.S.C. § 7214
Relies on Standefer v. United States · United States v. Richardson · United States v. Fischel · United States v. Pino-Perez · United States v. Jackson
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'abet' the crime of possession ... by procuring the customers and maintaining the market in which the possession is profitable, even though [one] do[es] nothing else to help the possessor get or retain possession”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“one who participates in a criminal adventure and seeks by his actions to make it succeed commits the crime of aiding and abetting”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]o say that [the accused] cannot be convicted without proof of possession is to say that one cannot be an aider and abettor unless one commits the principal offense, which would obliterate the crime of aiding and abetting.”
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.