Surrett v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
421 F.2d 403 · 1970
Citation profile
70 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently April 1996 · most notably United States v. Warner (1971), United States v. Goodwin (1974)
70 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 26 U.S.C. § 5179 · 26 U.S.C. § 5205 · 26 U.S.C. § 5222 · 26 U.S.C. § 7206
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Holland v. United States · Jordan v. De George · United States v. Romano · Viscardi 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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In [Vick v. United States, 5 Cir. 1954, 216 F.2d 228 ] and in other decisions this Court concluded that in criminal cases based upon circumstantial evidence, a special rule requires that inferences reasonably to be drawn from the evidence must not only be consistent with guilt of the accused, but inconsistent with every reasonable hypothesis of his innocence, 216 F.2d at 232 . The Supreme Court, however, has held that it is ‘confusing and incorrect’ to instruct the jury • that a special rule applies to cases based on circumstantial evidence in that an acquittal must be ordered unless the circumstantial evidence excluded every hypothesis except that of guilt. Holland v. United States, 1954, 348 U.S. 121 , 139 [ 75 S.Ct. 127 , 99 L. Ed. 150 ]. ... To reconcile the decisions of the Fifth Circuit with Holland, we construe them as holding that ‘the test is not whether the evidence is inconsistent with the hypothesis of innocence but rather whether reasonable minds could so conclude.’ Wright, 2 Federal Practice and Procedure § 467. . . .””
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.