United States v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
103 F.3d 660 · 1996
Citation profile
82 federal appellate · 6 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 126 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Lauzon v. Senco Products, Inc. (2001), United States v. Serrano-Lopez (2004)
82 federal appellate · 6 district · 11 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. § 111 (Federal Judiciary Protection Act of 2002) · 18 U.S.C. § 2113 · 18 U.S.C. § 924
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · Simmons v. United States · Rakas v. Illinois · Manson v. Brathwaite
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 126 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]here the government's evidence is equally strong to infer innocence as to infer guilt, the verdict must be one of not guilty and the court has a duty to direct an acquittal.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'[i]f it appears that a defendant or the government is prejudiced by a joinder of offenses.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We review the denial of a motion for acquittal by viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the verdict, giving the government the benefit of all reasonable inferences to be drawn from the evidence.”
4 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.