United States v. Weiss’s Empirical Analysis
930 F.2d 185 · 1991
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently January 2022 · most notably State v. Singh (2002), United States v. Williamson (1995)
38 federal appellate · 4 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. § 1341 (White-Collar Crime Penalty Enhancement Act of 2002) · 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 42 U.S.C. § 1395N (§ 1835 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Glasser v. United States · Kotteakos v. United States · Neil v. Biggers · Davis v. Alaska
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any rational trier of fact could have found the essential 13 elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in the light most favorable to the government,”
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.