United States v. Ramirez’s Empirical Analysis
362 F.3d 521 · 2004
Citation profile
13 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently March 2023
13 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 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on United States v. Lincoln · United States v. Davis · United States v. Espino · United States v. Campos · United States v. Sanders
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.
“We review the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain a conviction de novo, viewing evidence in the light most favorable to the government, resolving conflicts in the government's favor, and accepting all reasonable inferences that support the verdict.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“This court will reverse for insufficient evidence only if no reasonable jury could have found [the defendant] guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. This standard applies even when the conviction rests entirely on circumstantial evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“court need not view the evidence in the light most favorable to the government, but may instead weigh the evidence and evaluate for itself the credibility of the witnesses.”
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.