United States v. Hastings’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

24 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 state decisions

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

1. “In determining a suitable and effective sanction, a court must weigh the reasons for the government's delay and whether it acted intentionally or in bad faith; the degree of prejudice, if any, suffered by the defendant; and whether any less severe sanction will remedy the prejudice and the wrongdoing of the government.”

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Hammoud · United States v. Taylor

2. “When a court sanctions the government in a criminal case for its failure to obey. court orders, it must use the least severe sanction which will adequately punish the government and secure future compliance.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States of America v. Jeffrey J. Decoteau · United States v. Johnson

3. “[D]efendants are similarly situated when their circumstances present no distinguishable legitimate prosecutorial factors that might justify making different prosecutorial decisions with respect to them.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. AT & T Inc. · Branch Ministries and Dan Little, Pastor v. Charles O. Rossotti, Commissioner, Internal Revenue Service,