Cosby v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
682 F.2d 1373 · 1982
Citation profile
46 federal appellate · 2 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 97 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2025 · most notably Wright v. West (1992), United States v. Hunt (2008)
46 federal appellate · 2 district · 23 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 28 U.S.C. § 636
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Glasser v. United States · Rose v. Lundy · Sandstrom v. Montana · Picard v. Connor
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 97 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[g]ives equal or nearly equal circumstantial support to a theory of guilt and a theory of innocence of the crime charged, [would] a reasonable jury ... necessarily entertain a reasonable doubt,”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“the inference of participation in the crime drawn from possession of the fruits of the crime is to be judged like any other inference, that is, on the strength of that inference in the light of the facts of each particular case.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“even if discredited by the jury, . . . 'so implausible or demonstrably false as to give rise to positive evidence in favor of the government'”
3 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.