Pilon v. E Bordenkircher’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 8 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2013 · most notably Untermyer v. Anderson (1928), Holloway v. McElroy (1980)
28 federal appellate · 8 district · 19 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Thompson v. City of Louisville · Pilon v. Bordenkircher
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fuller v. Anderson“the Thompson `no evidence test' is constitutionally inadequate. . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Morgan
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.