McGuire v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
437 F.2d 570 · 1971
Citation profile
20 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently October 2004
20 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
Relies on Moses Lake Homes, Inc. v. Grant County · Marsh v. Illinois Cent. R. · Whiteman v. Pitrie · Delancey v. Motichek Towing Service, Inc. · Hilbrich 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that the charge was sufficiently clear to be understood by jurors of ordinary intelligence and that the jury would have no difficulty in applying it to the evidence and thereby reaching the proper conclusion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[p]ortions of a charge are not to be scrutinized on appeal apart from their context as isolated verbal phenomena.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“This Court in considering a sufficiency question is required to accept all evidence in favor of the verdict as true and to give that evidence the benefit of all permissible inferences that help sustain the jury's decision.”
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.