United States v. Vera’s Empirical Analysis
701 F.2d 1349 · 1983
Citation profile
204 federal appellate · 4 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 297 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably United States v. Hooks (1986), State v. Bays (1999)
204 federal appellate · 4 district · 17 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 843 (§ 403 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 844 (§ 404 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Patterson v. New York · Bram v. United States · Mansion House Center South Redevelopment Co. v. United States · United States v. Radio Television News Directors Ass'n
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 297 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is not necessary that the evidence exclude every reasonable hypothesis of innocence or be wholly inconsistent with every conclusion except that of guilt, provided a reasonable trier of fact could find that the evidence established guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. A jury is free to choose among reasonable constructions of the evidence.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is free to choose among reasonable constructions of the evidence.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“look to the context in which the statement was made in order to determine the manifest intention which prompted it and its natural and necessary impact upon the jury.”
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.