United States v. Koen’s Empirical Analysis
982 F.2d 1101 · 1992
Citation profile
92 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 130 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably Vicom, Inc. v. Harbridge Merchant Services, Inc. (1994), United States v. Frost (1997)
92 federal appellate ·
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 Griffin v. California · Missouri v. Continential Insurance Cos. · Pereira v. United States · Huddleston v. United States · American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance 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 130 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“within the range of options from which one could expect a reasonable trial judge to select.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A defendant attempting to overturn a conviction on the grounds of insufficient evidence bears a heavy burden.”
6 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.