Knapp v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
311 F.2d 71 · 1962
Citation profile
19 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently March 1991
19 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
Relies on Vick v. United States · United States v. Jones · Tomley 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.
“[T]his [C]ourt may and will, where the case as whole presents an image of unfairness which has resulted in the deprivation of [appellant's] ... constitutional rights, reverse even though none of the claimed errors is sufficient in itself to require reversal.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““He [the Defendant-Appellant] further argues that the evidence, circumstantial as it was, was insufficient to connect the defendant in any way with the alleged narcotics. “We don’t think so * * * “While this court has consistently held that a jury should exercise great caution in convicting on circumstantial evidence which was merely consistent with defendant’s guilt and not wholly inconsistent with his innocence, in the end the rule which prevails has been stated and applied time and again, and was properly applied here. This rule is that in circumstantial evidence cases, the test to be applied on motion for judgment of acquittal and on review of the case on appeal is not whether, in the opinion of the trial judge or of the judges of the appellate court the evidence fails to exclude every hypothesis other than guilt, but rather there was evidence from which the jury might reasonably so conclude. Vick v. United States, 5 Cir,, 216 F.2d 288 .” Knapp v. United States, 5th Cir. 1962, 311 F.2d 71 .”
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.