United States v. Talbert’s Empirical Analysis
710 F.2d 528 · 1983
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently January 2011 · most notably United States v. McKoy (1985), United States v. Lewis (1986)
32 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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. § 1111
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Chandler v. Roudebush · Lehnhausen v. Lake Shore Auto Parts Co. · United States v. Miller · Borum v. United States
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if, viewing the evidence presented against the defendant in the light most favorable to the government, 'any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Circumstantial evidence is sufficient to sustain a conviction, and the [prosecution's] evidence need not exclude every reasonable hypothesis consistent with innocence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A defendant is entitled to a judgment of acquittal if the evidence produced against him is insufficient to sustain a conviction.”
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.