Gibson v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
947 F.2d 780 · 1991
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently August 2016
10 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Holland v. United States · Bell v. United States · National Labor Relations Board v. International Longshoremen's Ass'n
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We accept the Borum majority’s rule as we understand it: In a criminal case in which the only evidence is the discovery of the defendant’s fingerprints at the scene of the crime, a reasonable juror may find guilt beyond a reasonable doubt only if the evidence indicates that the imprinted object was generally inaccessible to the defendant except during the commission of the crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“When a defendant seeking federal habeas relief contends that the evidence is insufficient to support a state court conviction, 'the relevant question 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.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Foy v. Jf Donnelly J“[u]nder Jackson, we may find the evidence sufficient to support a conviction even though the facts also support one or more reasonable hypotheses consistent with the defendant's claim of innocence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Foy v. Jf Donnelly J
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.