United States v. Vig’s Empirical Analysis
167 F.3d 443 · 1999
Citation profile
66 federal appellate · 9 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 122 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2025 · most notably Ashcroft Attorney General v. Free Speech Coalition (2002), Vig v. United States (1999)
66 federal appellate · 9 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. § 2252 · 18 U.S.C. § 2252A (§ 101 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996) · 18 U.S.C. § 2256
Relies on Consumer Product Safety Commission v. GTE Sylvania, Inc. · Smith v. United States · Oscar Mayer & Co. v. Evans · Ladner v. United States · United States v. Price
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 122 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there is an interpretation of the evidence that would allow a reasonable-minded jury to find the defendants guilty beyond a reasonable doubt,”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]e examine the evidence in the light most favorable to the verdict, giving the government the benefit of all reasonable inferences that may logically be drawn from the evidence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Absent clearly expressed legislative intent to the contrary, the language is regarded as conclusive.”
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.