United States v. Delay’s Empirical Analysis
440 F.2d 566 · 1971
Citation profile
14 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently October 2011
14 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. § 2312
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Fitts v. United States · United States v. Gardner · United States v. Weldon · Pauldino 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where the evidence as to an element of a crime is equally consistent with a theory of innocence as with guilt, that evidence necessarily fails to establish guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.”
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.