Lenza v. Wyrick’s Empirical Analysis
665 F.2d 804 · 1981
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 4 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2024 · most notably Horton v. Allen (2004), Commonwealth v. Collins (2005)
31 federal appellate · 4 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
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Glasser v. United States · Ohio v. Roberts · Holland v. United States · Stone v. Powell
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he relevant question is whether, after viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Stone bar applies despite a state court's error in deciding the merits of a defendant's fourth amendment claim.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“circumstantial evidence is to be treated no differently than direct evidence.”
2 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.