United States v. Fiore’s Empirical Analysis
821 F.2d 127 · 1987
Citation profile
62 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably State v. Jenks (1991), United States v. Torres (1990)
62 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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. § 1341 (White-Collar Crime Penalty Enhancement Act of 2002) · 18 U.S.C. § 34 · 18 U.S.C. § 844
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Blockburger v. United States · Brown v. Ohio · Missouri v. Hunter · Albernaz 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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he conviction must be sustained if any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“reasonable hypothesis which is consistent with innocence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he evidence must be viewed in the light most favorable to the verdict; all inferences must be drawn in the [Government's favor; the [Defendant bears a heavy burden; the verdict must be sustained if there is substantial evidence to support it; and ... the conviction must be sustained if any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.”
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.