United States v. Black’s Empirical Analysis
497 F.2d 1039 · 1974
Citation profile
88 federal appellate · 69 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 159 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably 368 So. 2d 871 - Cumbo v. State (1978), United States v. Elliott (1978)
88 federal appellate · 69 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. § 1006 · 18 U.S.C. § 657
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Rodriquez v. United States · Simpson v. United States · United States v. Warner · Ferrell v. Dallas Independent School District
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 159 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n a case based only on circumstantial evidence, the appellate task is to determine whether reasonable minds could conclude that the evidence is inconsistent with the hypothesis of the accused's innocence. Whether the evidence be direct or circumstantial, the matter of the defendant's guilt is for the jury to decide unless the court concludes that the jury must necessarily have had a reasonable doubt.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“All reasonable inferences and credibility choices as will support the jury's verdict of guilty must be made”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(r)easonable hypotheses of innocence were not excluded”
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.