United States v. Eaglin’s Empirical Analysis
571 F.2d 1069 · 1977
Citation profile
80 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 101 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2017 · most notably Chambers v. United States (2009), United States v. Nevils (2010)
80 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 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. § 1072 · 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 18 U.S.C. § 4082
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Glasser v. United States · Bruton v. United States · Wainwright v. Sykes · Jackson v. Denno
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 101 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n determining the sufficiency of circumstantial evidence, the question is not whether the evidence excludes every hypothesis except that of guilt but rather whether the trier of fact could reasonably arrive at its conclusion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[E]scape from a state institution is an escape from the custody of the Attorney General if the prisoner has been confined there under the authority of the Attorney General”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a statement by a coconspirator of [the defendant] during the course and in furtherance of the conspiracy.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.