Bryan v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““In reference to that count and the admission of this evidence, the counsel suggests that when the testimony was admitted it was in the nature of direct evidence introduced for the purpose of convicting plaintiff in error on the count No. 4 of the indictment. That may very well be one of the grounds on which this testimony was admitted at the time it was admitted, and it may be conceded that it was in the nature of direct evidence to support that count of the indictment; but it by no means follows that, because it was in the nature of direct evidence to support one count in the indictment, it thereby had, or for any other reason shown in this record, lost its character as indirect evidence to illustrate the intent, and from which, with other circumstances, the jury could deduce the intent of the defendant in doing the acts otherwise fully established against him, charged in the counts Nos. 1, 2, and 3.””

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