United States v. White’s Empirical Analysis
673 F.2d 299 · 1982
Citation profile
59 federal appellate · 22 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 98 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably United States v. Guadagna (1999), United States v. Peveto (1989)
59 federal appellate · 22 district · 1 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. § 1341 (White-Collar Crime Penalty Enhancement Act of 2002) · 18 U.S.C. § 2314
Relies on United States v. Wilson · Curley v. United States · Securities Investor Protection Corp. v. Barbour · United States v. Utah Construction & Mining Co. · Commissioner v. Singer Sewing Machine Co.
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 98 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“view the evidence in the light most favorable to the government and then determine whether there is substantial evidence from which a jury might properly find the accused guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“only if the evidence that [the] defendant committed the crime is nonexistent or so meager that no reasonable jury could find guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]e must view the evidence, both direct and circumstantial, in the light most favorable to the government, and without weighing conflicting evidence or considering the credibility of witnesses, determine whether that evidence, if believed, would establish each element of the crime.”
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.