443 U.S. 307 (1979) Cited 77,879 times 16 Legal Analyses
Holding that courts conducting review of the sufficiency of the evidence to support a criminal conviction should view the "evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution"
470 U.S. 1 (1985) Cited 4,025 times 4 Legal Analyses
Holding that a prosecutor's improper remarks did not rise to the level of a plainly erroneous due-process violation because they did not "undermine the fairness of the trial and contribute to a miscarriage of justice error"
522 U.S. 52 (1997) Cited 1,213 times 11 Legal Analyses
Holding that the canon of construction requiring a clear statement to alter the federal-state balance of criminal jurisdiction "does not warrant a departure from terms" where the statute's "text . . . is unambiguous on the point under consideration"
Holding that "a sentence of twenty-four months' imprisonment-six months longer than the top end of the applicable Guidelines range" was "substantively reasonable"
348 U.S. 121 (1954) Cited 2,193 times 2 Legal Analyses
Holding the instruction "the kind of doubt . . . which you folks in the more serious and important affairs of your own lives might be willing to act upon" was not misleading and "correctly conveyed the concept of reasonable doubt to the jury"
Holding that "the interest of the public in the quality of life and the total community environment and . . . possibly, the public safety itself" is implicated in "stemming the tide of commercialized obscenity"
18 U.S.C. § 3237 Cited 1,039 times 5 Legal Analyses
Providing that "[a]ny offense involving . . . transportation in interstate or foreign commerce" may be "prosecuted in any district from, through, or into which such commerce . . . or person moves"