United States v. Harper’s Empirical Analysis
450 F.2d 1032 · 1971
Citation profile
89 federal appellate · 5 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 128 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably United States v. Evans (1978), State v. McCall (1982)
89 federal appellate · 5 district · 29 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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. § 4244
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Spinelli v. United States · Pereira v. United States · Davis v. United States · Blau 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 128 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The issue of the defendant's insanity, when raised as a defense to a criminal prosecution, is to be decided by the jury on the basis of all the evidence. Therefore, although expert opinion evidence on the issue cannot be arbitrarily ignored, it is not binding on the jury. Rather it is only advisory in nature. Indeed, it is the jury's function to assess the credibility of the expert witnesses and the weight to be given to their testimony." 450 F.2d at 1037 .”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“evidence that a reasonably minded jury could accept as adequate and sufficient to support the conclusion of the defendant's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the verdict of a jury must be sustained if there is substantial evidence, taking the view most favorable to the Government, to support it”
2 later decisions 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.