United States v. Reisinger’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

137 federal appellate · 34 district · 54 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 302 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The repeal of any statute shall not have the effect to release or extinguish any penalty, forfeiture, or liability incurred under such statute, unless the repealing Act shall so expressly provide, and such statute shall be treated as still remaining in force for the purpose of sustaining any proper action or prosecution for the enforcement of such penalty, forfeiture, or liability.”

   15 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. United States v. Brown · United States v. Blue Sea Line

2. “[t]he only ground upon which the correctness of this interpretation may be doubted is that the words "penalty,” "liability,” and "forfeiture” do not apply to crimes, and the punishments therefor, such as we are now considering. We cannot assent to this. These words have been used by the great masters of crown law and the elementary writers as synonymous with the word "punishment” in connection with crimes of the highest grade. Thus, Blackstone speaks of criminal law as that "branch of jurisprudence which teaches of the nature, extent, and degrees of every crime, and adjusts to it its adequate and necessary penalty.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Ismaaeel

3. ““That the legislature intended that this thirteenth section [1 USCA § 29] .should apply to all offenses is shown by section 5598., Rev. St., under the title of ‘Repealed. Provisions,’ which is as follows: ‘All- offenses committed, and .all penalties or forfeitures incurred, under any statute embraced in said revision prior to said repeal, may be prosecuted and punished in the same manner and with the same effect as if said repeal had not been made.’ “It was the obvious intention of section 13, Rev. St. [1 USCA § 29], to extend this provision to the repeal of any statute not embraced in such revision.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 5 F. Supp. 470 - United States v. Smith