United States v. Saunders’s Empirical Analysis
886 F.2d 56 · 1989
Citation profile
202 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 527 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably United States v. Randall (1999), United States v. United Medical & Surgical Supply Corp. (1993)
202 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. § 113 · 18 U.S.C. § 13 (Assimilative Crimes Act)
Relies on United States v. Tresvant · United States v. Gwaltney · United States v. Smith · United States v. Pazsint
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 527 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To sustain a conviction the evidence, when viewed in the light most favorable to the government, must be sufficient for a rational trier of fact to have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.”
26 later decisions quote this exact passage“this court is bound by the credibility choices of the jury.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“records that are maintained and kept as normal and customary business records”
1 later decision 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.