Evans-Smith v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
19 F.3d 899 · 1994
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently November 2011
9 federal appellate · 1 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 Jackson v. Virginia · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · North Carolina v. Pearce · Brecht v. Abrahamson · Engle v. Isaac
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to start with the assumption that the crime was committed and then to show that each piece of circumstantial evidence can be explained in a consistent manner is fundamentally different from examining each piece of evidence and finally concluding beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant [is] guilty [of each element of the crime].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Favoring the prosecution with all inferences does not mean that we must ignore evidence that is in the record, but which they ignore.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“While all inferences must be made in favor of the prosecution, leaps of logic should not be.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.