United States v. Hooks’s Empirical Analysis
780 F.2d 1526 · 1986
Citation profile
248 federal appellate · 13 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 333 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably United States v. Williamson (1995), United States v. Sullivan (1990)
248 federal appellate · 13 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 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Glasser v. United States · Griffin v. California · Burks v. United States · United States v. Young
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 333 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“both direct and circumstantial, together with the reasonable inferences to be drawn therefrom”
36 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In evaluating the sufficiency of the evidence, we must view the evidence--both direct and circumstantial, together with all reasonable inferences to be drawn therefrom--in the light most favorable to the government.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“collective inferences to be drawn from the evidence as a whole,”
8 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.