United States v. Thayer’s Empirical Analysis
209 F.2d 534 · 1954
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently June 1973 · most notably Tkach v. United States (1957), United States v. Redfield (1961)
27 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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. § 1154
Relies on Gaunt v. United States · Griffin v. United States · Ochoa v. United States · United States v. Yeoman-Henderson, Inc. · Wyche 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a motion for a judgment of acquittal is made, the sole duty of the trial judge is to determine whether substantial evidence, taken in the light most favorable to the government, tends to show the defendant is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.”
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.