United States v. Prieur’s Empirical Analysis
429 F.2d 1237 · 1970
Citation profile
19 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently November 1994 · most notably United States v. Craven (1973), United States v. Adamo (1984)
19 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 18 U.S.C. § 659
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Holland v. United States · United States v. Luxenberg · United States v. Conti · United States v. Decker
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it is not necessary that such evidence remove every reasonable hypothesis except that of guilt.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * 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. * * *”
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.