United States v. Buck’s Empirical Analysis
804 F.2d 239 · 1986
Citation profile
72 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions — most recently July 2013 · most notably United States v. Torres (1990), United States v. Maldonado-Rivera (1990)
72 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act)
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Holland v. United States · Local 408, International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. National Labor Relations Board · Mont v. United States · United States v. Carson
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in evaluating [a sufficiency of the evidence] claim, we must view the evidence in the light most favorable to the government and construe all possible inferences in its favor”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“one who challenges on appeal the sufficiency of the evidence * * * bears 'a very heavy burden'”
1 later decision 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.