United States v. Springer’s Empirical Analysis
831 F.2d 781 · 1987
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently November 2000 · most notably 23 Cal. 4th 1121 - Alvarado v. Superior Court (2000), United States v. Adkins (1988)
31 federal appellate · 1 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 Kotteakos v. United States · Alford v. United States · Smith v. Illinois · Liegl v. Webb · Texas State Commission for the Blind 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In reviewing a denial of a motion for acquittal, 'we must view the evidence in the light most favorable to the government,'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A motion for acquittal should be granted only where 'the evidence, viewed in the light most favorable to the [g]overnment, is such that a reasonably minded jury must have a reasonable doubt as to the existence of any of the essential elements of the crime charged.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the benefit of all reasonable inferences that may logically be drawn from the evidence.”
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.