United States v. Wester’s Empirical Analysis
90 F.3d 592 · 1996
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2022
11 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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
Relies on United States v. Olano · Pinkerton v. United States · McNally v. United States · Doerr v. Doerr · Western Farm Credit Bank v. Fobian
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he problem that has confronted and perplexed the courts is that there is no statutory definition or common law heritage that gives content to the phrase 'willfully misapplies.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the same facts can easily be the basis for deeming the conduct to be wrongful and the intent fraudulent.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“some interplay between the jury's assessment of guilt on the substantive counts and the conspiracy charge is both natural and appropriate.”
1 later decision 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.