United States v. Kenyon’s Empirical Analysis
397 F.3d 1071 · 2005
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably United States v. Lopez (2006), United States v. Fleck (2005)
40 federal appellate · 1 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
Relies on Kotteakos v. United States · Rubin v. United States · Lockhart v. Nelson · Tome v. United States · United States v. Ellis
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“we view the evidence in the light most favorable to the verdict, and we will overturn a conviction only if no reasonable jury could have concluded that the defendant was guilty beyond a reasonable doubt on each essential element of the charge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the same quantum of evidence that was considered by the trial court in determining whether a motion for judgment of acquittal should have been granted, even if some of the evidence is later determined to be inadmissible.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“in her private part in the `area between her legs' and tried to put his finger inside her private part `in the front' * * * is sufficient to establish the sexual act of touching another's genitalia”
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.