Johnson v. Coyle’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Circumstantial evidence alone is sufficient to support a conviction, and it is not necessary for the evidence to exclude every reasonable hypothesis except that of guilt.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Ledbetter · State v. Williams, Unpublished Decision (12-30-2003)

2. “When a defendant challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to support a conviction, we inquire “whether after viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.” Bagby v. Sowders, 894 F.2d 792, 794 (6th Cir.1990) (en banc); Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307, 319 , 99 S.Ct. 2781 , 61 L.Ed.2d 560 (1979).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Zuern v. Tate