Kelly v. Roberts’s Empirical Analysis
998 F.2d 802 · 1993
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably Romero v. Tansy (1995), United States v. Ramirez (1995)
14 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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 · Needler v. Valley National Bank of Arizona · Boatmen's National Bank of St. Louis v. Carver · Air Line Pilots Ass'n v. Landry · Wetherell v. De Grandy
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'unless no 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“accept the jury's resolution of the evidence as long as it is within the bounds of reason.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'To be sufficient, the evidence supporting the conviction must be substantial; that is, it must do more than raise a mere suspicion of guilt.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Scrivner v. Tansy
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.