Maldonado v. Charles Scully & Green Haven Correctional Facility’s Empirical Analysis
86 F.3d 32 · 1996
Citation profile
20 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 116 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Alawi Kuhali v. Janet Reno Attorney General of the United States (2001), Jones v. Vacco (1997)
20 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
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance v. United States · Johnson v. Righetti · Mayers v. United States · Soto 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 116 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“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. This familiar standard gives full play to the responsibility of the trier of fact fairly to resolve conflicts in the testimony, to weigh the evidence, and to draw reasonable inferences from basic facts to ultimate facts. Once a defendant has been found guilty of the crime charged, the factfinder’s role as weigher of the evidence is preserved through a legal conclusion that upon judicial review all of the evidence is to be considered in the light most favorable to the prosecution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. DeChirico v. Walker“[A]ssessments of the weight of the evidence or the credibility of witnesses are for the jury and not grounds for reversal on appeal[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Torres v. O'Meara
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.