Wimberly v. McKune’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2253 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Faretta v. California · Landgraf v. USI Film Products
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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'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,' " Wingfield v. Massie, 122 F.3d 1329 , 1332 (10th Cir.1997) (quoting Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307 , 319, 99 S.Ct. 2781, 61 L.Ed.2d 560 (1979)), cert. denied, 66 U.S.L.W. 3474 (U.S. Mar. 9, 1998) (No. 97-1140), looking to state law for the "substantive elements”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Wimberly v. McKune“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.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Wimberly v. McKune“Aggravated robbery is a robbery ... committed by a person who is armed with a dangerous weapon or who inflicts bodily harm upon any person in the course of such robbery.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Wimberly v. McKune
How this case has been treated — in progress
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