United States v. Harden’s Empirical Analysis
846 F.2d 1229 · 1988
Citation profile
48 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably United States v. Smith (1991), United States v. Sherbondy (1988)
48 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 18 U.S.C. § 921 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · United States v. Wicks · United States v. Houston · United States v. Curtis
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“after viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“As the Government properly points out in its brief, Harden did not preserve [the sufficiency] issue on appeal because he failed to raise it at the district court level.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“reasonable probability that, but for counsel's unprofessional errors, the result of the proceeding would have been different.”
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.