United States v. Werlinger’s Empirical Analysis
894 F.2d 1015 · 1990
Citation profile
111 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 125 later decisions — most recently April 2021 · most notably United States v. Phillip (1991), United States v. Blackman (1990)
111 federal appellate ·
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. § 1503 · 18 U.S.C. § 3742 · 18 U.S.C. § 656 · 28 U.S.C. § 991
Relies on United States v. Bass · Whalen v. United States · Bell v. United States · Nicholas v. United States · Simpson 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 125 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f the defendant willfully impeded or obstructed, or attempted to impede or obstruct the administration of justice during the investigation or prosecution of the instant offense.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“that occurs prior to an investigation by law enforcement authorities,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“significant affirmative steps ... to conceal the offense,”
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.