United States v. Beck’s Empirical Analysis
615 F.2d 441 · 1980
Citation profile
128 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 175 later decisions — most recently December 2013 · most notably Cenco Incorporated v. Seidman & Seidman (1982), United States v. McKoy (1985)
128 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 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. § 1001 (Comprehensive Thrift and Bank Fraud Prosecution and Taxpayer Recovery Act of 1990) · 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 3731 · 22 U.S.C. § 2778
Relies on Hamling v. United States · Starnes v. Penrod Drilling Co. · Nye & Nissen v. United States · Davis v. Alaska · Lustig v. United States
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 175 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he test that the court must use is whether at the time of the motion there was relevant evidence from which the jury could reasonably find [the defendant] guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the Government ... bear[ing] in mind that 'it is the exclusive function of the jury to determine the credibility of witnesses, resolve evidentiary conflicts, and draw reasonable inferences.'”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'high level of activity need not be shown to prove participation.... [T]here must be evidence that the defendant committed an overt act designed to aid in the success of the venture.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“associate[d] himself with the venture, that he participate[d] in it as in something he wishes to bring about, [and] that he s[ought] by his actions to make it succeed.”
3 later decisions 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.