United States v. Teffera’s Empirical Analysis
985 F.2d 1082 · 1993
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably United States v. Washington (1994), United States v. Wilson (1998)
45 federal appellate · 3 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. § 2 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Missouri v. Continential Insurance Cos. · Robertson v. Methow Valley Citizens Council · Yagow 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 60 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”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]e do not ... fulfill our duty through rote incantation of [the principles governing a review of sufficiency of evidence] followed by summary affirmance. We must ensure that the evidence adduced at trial is sufficient to support a verdict as a matter of law. A jury is entitled to draw a vast range of reasonable inferences from evidence, but may not base a verdict on mere speculation.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“do not ... 'weigh[ ] the evidence anew' nor do we require that the evidence 'exclude all reasonable hypotheses of innocence or lead inexorably to the conclusion that the defendant is guilty.'”
3 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.