United States v. James’s Empirical Analysis
987 F.2d 648 · 1993
Citation profile
47 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently June 2020 · most notably United States v. Meade (1999), United States v. Atcheson (1996)
47 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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. § 2113
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Brady v. State of Maryland · Burks v. United States · Duncan v. State of Louisiana · Patterson v. New York
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if reviewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, no 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“Without any evidence on the FDIC status of the bank, no rational jury could have found beyond a reasonable doubt that the banks were insured by the FDIC.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The defense has no obligation to remind the government of its obligation to prove each element of a crime.”
2 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.