Clark v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
293 F.2d 445 · 1961
Citation profile
52 federal appellate · 56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 110 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably 368 So. 2d 871 - Cumbo v. State (1978), United States v. Resio-Trejo (1995)
52 federal appellate · 56 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. § 2 · 26 U.S.C. § 5205
Relies on Nye & Nissen v. United States · United States v. Calderon · United States v. Peoni · Columbia Properties, Inc. v. State Board of Tax Commissioners · Riggs 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 110 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This court, although recognizing that questions as to the credibility of witnesses and weight of evidence are for the jury, has the right and, we may say, is under a duty, to examine the record and determine whether there [is] any competent and substantial evidence fairly tending to support the verdict of guilt. In so reviewing the sufficiency of the evidence to justify a finding of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt in a circumstantial evidence case, the test we are to apply is whether the jury might reasonably find that the evidence excluded every reasonable hypothesis except that of guilt. Riggs v. United States, 5 Cir., 1960, 280 F.2d 949 ; Cuthbert v. United States, 5 Cir., 1960, 278 F.2d 220 ; Dicks v. United States, 5 Cir., 1958, 253 F.2d 713 .””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In determining the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the conviction, this court must accept as true the evidence introduced by the State, accord the State all legitimate inferences therefrom, and consider the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution.”
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.