Topic: highly deferential to the verdict. · Go Syfert
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6 canonical passages across 5 cases, quoted by 50 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. Harris.

#Case FlagCanonical passage Citers
1 United States v. Harris Anchor
ca5 · 2002
green “highly deferential to the verdict.” 14
2 United States v. Williams
ca5 · 2001
green “limited to whether the jury's verdict was reasonable, not whether we believe it to be correct.” 12
3 United States v. Harris
ca5 · 2002
green “whether the evidence, when reviewed in the light most favorable to the government with all reasonable inferences and credibility choices made in support of a conviction, allows a rational fact finder to find every element of the offense beyond a reasonable doubt.” 10
4 United States v. Asibor
ca5 · 1997
green “the evidence is viewed in the light most favorable to the verdict, accepting all credibility choices and reasonable inferences made by the trier of fact which tend to support the verdict.” 6
5 United States v. Gulley
ca5 · 2008
green “highly deferential to the verdict.” 5
6 United States v. Brenda Lee Pigrum and Clarence Allen
ca5 · 1991
green “a jury is free to choose among reasonable constructions of the evidence.” 3

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