United States v. Landers’s Empirical Analysis
484 F.2d 93 · 1973
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably United States v. Delgado (2012), United States v. Hyde (1978)
21 federal appellate · 2 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2314
Relies on Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · Hale v. United States · United States v. Franicevich · United States v. Ward
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Appellant failed to move for a judgment of acquittal at the close of his case. Accordingly, we restrict our review of his claims to whether his conviction resulted in a manifest miscarriage of justice. Such a miscarriage would exist only if the record is devoid of evidence pointing to guilt, or if the evidence on a key element of the offense was so tenuous that a conviction would be shocking.” (footnote and internal quotation marks omitted)). 8 . The other formulation of “manifest miscarriage of justice” mentioned by the majority— that it is a manifest miscarriage of justice when”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the evidence on a key element of the offense is so tenuous that a conviction would be shocking.”
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.