Head v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably 52 Cal. 3d 577 - People v. Hayes (1990), Hawthorne v. United States (1984)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 72 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.
Relationships
Relies on Barker v. Wingo · Holland v. United States · United States v. Marion · Santoni v. United States · United States v. MacDonald
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“no evidence upon which a reasonable mind could infer guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[C]ircumstantial evidence may be equally as probative as direct evidence.” Head v. United States, 451 A.2d 615, 625 (D.C.1982). Thus,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“support an inference, rather than mere speculation,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.