Keeble v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
830 federal appellate · 63 district · 723 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,946 later decisions (44 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2024 · most notably Beck v. Alabama (1980), United States v. Dixon (1993)
830 federal appellate · 63 district · 723 state decisions — followed in 45 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedUnited States v. Keeble (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Sansone v. United States · United States v. Kagama · Sparf v. United States · Samuel Worcester v. The State of Georgia
Cited together with Beck v. Alabama · Sansone v. United States · Strickland v. Washington · Hopper v. Evans · Schmuck 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 1,946 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where one of the elements of the offense charged remains in doubt, but the defendant is plainly guilty of some offense, the jury is likely to resolve its doubts in favor of conviction.”
93 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“if the evidence would permit a jury rationally to find him guilty of the lesser offense and acquit him of the greater.”
59 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“may be found guilty of an offense necessarily included in the offense charged ....”
10 later decisions 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.