United States v. Morrison’s Empirical Analysis
153 F.3d 34 · 1998
Citation profile
106 federal appellate · 7 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 243 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably United States v. Diaz (1999), United States v. Dhinsa (2001)
106 federal appellate · 7 district · 7 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. § 1343 · 18 U.S.C. § 2511 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 3553 · 18 U.S.C. § 4241 · 18 U.S.C. § 875 · 28 U.S.C. § 455
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · North Carolina v. Pearce · United States v. Agurs · Dusky v. United States · Huddleston 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 243 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to the jury's determination of the weight of the evidence and the credibility of the witnesses, and to the jury's choice of the competing inferences that can be drawn from the evidence.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[p]roof of the elements of the crimes charged may be entirely by circumstantial evidence”
3 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.