Foster v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
318 F.2d 684 · 1963
Citation profile
16 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently May 1996
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
Relies on Remmer v. United States · Stoppelli v. United States · Elwert v. United States · Cape v. United States · Bolen 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The question as to the sufficiency of either direct or circumstantial evidence is whether it is substantial, taking the view most favorable to the Government.” 323 F.2d 683, 684 , Footnote 1.”
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.