United States v. Searing’s Empirical Analysis
984 F.2d 960 · 1993
Citation profile
48 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably United States v. Brandon (1994), United States v. Delpit (1996)
48 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 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 18 U.S.C. § 111 (Federal Judiciary Protection Act of 2002) · 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Mathews v. United States · United States v. Feola · Mitan v. United States · Irwin v. Department of Veterans Affairs
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'a tacit understanding proven wholly by circumstantial evidence or by inferences'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“on the appropriate view of the evidence, any rational trier of fact could have found guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The evidence need not exclude every reasonable hypothesis other than guilt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hill v. Norris
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.