United States v. Farley’s Empirical Analysis
2 F.3d 645 · 1993
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2022 · most notably United States v. Carroll (1994), United States v. Latouf (1997)
31 federal appellate · 2 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1951 (Hobbs Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 3500
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Agurs · Giglio v. United States · Holland 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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“attacks on witness credibility are simply challenges to the quality of the government's evidence and not to the sufficiency of the evidence”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[c]ircumstantial evidence is entitled to the same weight as direct evidence in this calculus [of determining sufficiency]. United States v. Gallo, 763 F.2d 1504 , 1518 (6th Cir.1985).”
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.