Corbin v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
253 F.2d 646 · 1958
Citation profile
106 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 122 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably United States v. Nelson (1969), United States v. Hooks (1986)
106 federal appellate · 16 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 26 U.S.C. § 5008 · 26 U.S.C. § 7206
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Holland v. United States · Allen v. United States · United States v. Jeffers · Curley 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 122 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Substantial evidence is more than a scintilla. It must do more than create a suspicion of the existence of the fact to be established. We must consider the case as a whole and not piecemeal. The lines of proof must be considered together, not separately. Even if each line of proof taken by itself is of insufficient probative force, the conclusion does not necessarily follow that the proof taken as a whole is insufficient. The lines of proof interweave and support each other.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[Whether] on the basis of the whole record, “[t]he evidence — both direct and circumstantial, together with the reasonable inferences to be drawn therefrom— is sufficient if, when taken in the light most favorable to the government, a reasonable [trier of fact] could find the defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“manifest error and it is necessary to prevent a miscarriage of justice”
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.