Payne v. Borg’s Empirical Analysis
982 F.2d 335 · 1992
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2019 · most notably Jones v. Wood (1997), Mangum v. State (1996)
18 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 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 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Wright v. West · 35 Cal. 3d 547 - People v. Beeman · 43 Cal. 3d 1104 - People v. Anderson
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 45 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.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]f the historical facts would support conflicting inferences, the federal court 'must presume--even if it does not affirmatively appear in the record--that the trier of fact resolved any such conflict in favor of the prosecution, and must defer to that resolution.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“consider[ ] the evidence in a light most favorable to the prosecution and defer[ ] to the trier of fact's presumed resolution of conflicting inferences most favorably to the prosecution.”
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.