United States v. Laury’s Empirical Analysis
49 F.3d 145 · 1995
Citation profile
27 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably United States v. Delgado (2012), United States v. Hall (1998)
27 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. § 1951 (Hobbs Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 924
Relies on United States v. Olano · Blockburger v. United States · Missouri v. Hunter · United States v. Dixon · National Union Fire Insurance v. Helfand
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In a recent decision, this Court questioned whether the 'miscarriage of justice’ standard is distinguishable from the 'sufficiency of evidence’ standard employed if a defendant does make a motion for acquittal at the conclusion of the trial.”) (citing United States v. Pennington, 20 F.3d 593 , 597 n. 2 (5th Cir.1994)); see also United States v. Meadows, 91 F.3d 851 , 855 n. 6 (7th Cir.1996) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“only if the requested instruction (1) is substantively correct; (2) was not substantially covered in the charge actually delivered to the jury; and (3) concerns an important point in the trial so that failure to give it seriously impairs the defendant's ability to effectively present a given defense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Such a miscarriage of justice would exist only if the record is devoid of evidence pointing to guilt, or ... because the evidence on a key element of the offense was 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.