Mikes v. Borg’s Empirical Analysis
947 F.2d 353 · 1991
Citation profile
48 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently December 2020 · most notably United States v. Manning (1995), Bean v. Calderon (1998)
48 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 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
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Honig v. Doe · Consolidated Rail Corp. v. Erie Lackawanna, Inc. · United States v. Miller · Borum 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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]e have held that fingerprint evidence alone may under certain circumstances support a conviction.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a rational factfinder could have concluded beyond a reasonable doubt that Wimberly's fingerprints were placed on the receipts and other items in the victim's car at the time of the commission of the crime.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in a case resting upon the premise that the defendant impressed his fingerprints on an object at the time of the commission of the crime and supported solely by evidence that the defendant’s fingerprints were found on that object, the record must contain sufficient evidence to permit a jury, applying the beyond a reasonable doubt standard, to draw the inference that the defendant touched the object during the commission of the crime.”
2 later decisions 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.