United States v. Vannerson’s Empirical Analysis
786 F.2d 221 · 1986
Citation profile
114 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 214 later decisions — most recently January 2022 · most notably United States v. Wright (1994), United States v. Abboud (2006)
114 federal appellate ·
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. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 2113
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Holland v. United States · United States v. Stone · United States v. Green
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 214 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A defendant claiming 'insufficiency of the evidence bears a very heavy burden.'”
48 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[e]vidence is sufficient to support a criminal conviction if, after viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the government, any rational trier of fact could have found the elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.”
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.