United States v. Renner’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 federal appellate ·

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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[A] variance changes the evidence, while the charge remains the same.... [A] variance implicates the defendant’s Sixth Amendment right to notice of the nature of the charge and is subject to harmless error analysis.” (quotations and citations omitted)). Nor has she has shown that any possible variance between the superseding indictment and the evidence presented at trial”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Jarrett

2. “A constructive amendment occurs when the essential elements of the offense as charged in the indictment are altered in such a manner — often through the evidence introduced at trial or the jury instruction — that the jury is allowed to convict the defendant of an offense different from ... the offenses charged in the indictment.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Jarrett

3. “We review a challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence deferentially, viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the jury's verdict, and affirm if any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Stephens