Nye v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 federal appellate ·

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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““That Rufus Howard Nye and Lonnie Cicero Mayers, the defendants herein, on or about April 19, 1939, in the Middle District of North Carolina, and within the jurisdiction of this Court, unlawfully, wilfully, knowingly and feloniously did corruptly influence, obstruct and impede, and corruptly endeavor to influence, obstruct and impede the due administration of justice in the Court of the United States for the Middle District of North Carolina, that is to say, the said defendants then and there corruptly did endeavor to have dismissed in said Court of the United States a civil action then pending under the number 11 on the Durham docket of the Clerk of the Court for said district, being entitled W. H. Elmore, Administrator of James Elmore, deceased, v. C. T. Council and Germain Bernard, partners trading as BC Remedy Company, which said action had not yet come to trial on the merits, that is to say, said defendants did then and there cause to be filed with said Court of the United States false and fraudulently obtained letters and affidavits concerning said action, they the said defendants by such conduct thereby causing delay in the trial of said case and great expense in connection therewith, and did in truth and in fact then and there thereby corruptly influence, obstruct and impede the due administration of justice in said Court of the United States; contrary to the form of the statute in such case made and provided and against the peace and dignity of the United States of A”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Nye v. United States