United States v. Schultz’s Empirical Analysis
855 F.2d 1217 · 1988
Citation profile
80 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 137 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably United States v. Evans (1989), United States v. Gonzalez (1991)
80 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. § 1952 · 21 U.S.C. § 843 (§ 403 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Nixon · Pinkerton v. United States · Bourjaily v. United States · Castor 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 137 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the relevant question [where sufficiency of the evidence is at issue] is whether, 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.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]itness credibility is solely within the province of the jury.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]o sustain the jury's verdict, the evidence does not need to be inconsistent with every conclusion save that of guilt.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.