United States v. Morillo’s Empirical Analysis
158 F.3d 18 · 1998
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably United States v. Baltas (2001), United States v. Ofray-Campos (2008)
39 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. Ortiz · United States v. Batista-Polanco · United States v. Echeverri · United States v. Rivera-Santiago · United States v. Gomez-Pabon
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[C]hallenges to the sufficiency of the evidence and to the denial of the motion for judgment of acquittal raise a single issue'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If the evidence 'viewed in the light most favorable to the verdict gives equal or nearly equal circumstantial support to a theory of guilt and a theory of innocence of the crime charged,' [we] must reverse the conviction. This is so because . . . where an equal or nearly equal theory of guilt and a theory of innocence is supported by the evidence viewed in the light most favorable to the prosecution, 'a reasonable jury must necessarily entertain a reasonable - 13 - doubt.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it reasonably can be assumed that 'criminals rarely welcome innocent persons as witnesses to serious crimes and rarely seek to perpetrate felonies before larger-than- necessary audiences.'”
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.