United States v. Collon’s Empirical Analysis
426 F.2d 939 · 1970
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 1 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently November 2019 · most notably State v. Bridgeman (1978), United States v. Craven (1973)
40 federal appellate · 1 district · 16 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2113
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Curley v. United States · Commissioner v. Singer Sewing Machine Co. · Sims v. Gardner · Curley 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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * the evidence and all reasonable inferences that may be drawn therefrom must be viewed in the light most favorable to the government. * * * And if under such view of the evidence it is concluded that a reasonable mind might fairly find guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, the issue [was] for the jury. However, if under such view of the evidence it is concluded there must be some doubt in a reasonable mind, the motion for acquittal must be sustained. * * *”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he map could have been innocently handled by him months before the robbery and found its way into the car in any number of ways without his participation or knowledge.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“not sufficient evidence upon which a reasonable mind might fairly conclude guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gibson v. Collins
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.