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8 canonical passages across 8 cases, quoted by 51 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side: they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from United States v. Darwin Jay Copeland Anthony Antoine Hartwell.

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1 United States v. Darwin Jay Copeland Anthony Antoine Hartwell Anchor
ca6 · 2003
green “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.” 11
2 United States v. Charles Hughes (88-1658), Luckett Larry (88-1659), Sanford Hoskow (88-1660), Basem Kandah (88-1661), and Dale Dudley (88-1751)
ca6 · 1990
green “we are bound to make all reasonable inferences and credibility choices in support of the jury's verdict.” 10
3 United States v. Byron Still
ca5 · 1996
green “an appellant abandons all issues not raised and argued in its initial brief on appeal.” 7
4 United States v. Philip A. Chance
ca6 · 2002
green “for purposes of a conviction under 18 u.s.c. 1962 (c) (d), the government need only prove that the enterprise's racketeering activities had a de minimis connection with interstate commerce.” 6
5 United States v. Joshua Hollingsworth
ca6 · 2005
green “so basic as to be implicit in the fact of a prior conviction.” 5
6 Amber McCombs v. Meijer, Inc., D/B/A Meijer's Supermarkets
ca6 · 2005
green “the outcome of the trial was not affected by any evidentiary error.” 4
7 United States v. Marcus Franklin (03-2439) Jamaal Clarke (03-2440)
ca6 · 2005
green “in the statements themselves and with the facts the government sought to establish thereby.” 4
8 United States v. Rachel Shannon Sosebee (03-1923) and Jack P. Farris (03-2219)
ca6 · 2005
green “in addition, five of our sister circuits have recently addressed the issue of whether booker affects restitution orders. although they rely on different reasoning, all five circuits have uniformly declined to reverse an order of restitution based on the concerns raised in blakel…” 4

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