United States v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
296 F.3d 344 · 2002
Citation profile
16 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2020
16 federal appellate ·
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. § 1114 · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 28 U.S.C. § 46
Relies on Apprendi v. New Jersey · McMillan v. Pennsylvania · Harris v. United States · Bell v. United States · Deal 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The standard of review in assessing a challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence in a criminal case is whether a `reasonable trier of fact could have found that the evidence established guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the evidence viewed in the light most favorable to the prosecution gives equal or nearly equal circumstantial support to a theory of guilt and a theory of innocence,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“in its current form provides even broader coverage” than the pre-1996 version). 12 . Bankoff argues that our construction of the phrase”
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.