Lane’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

31 federal appellate · 10 district · 18 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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““* * * we think that the words ‘except the territories’ have reference exclusively to that system of organized government long existing within the United States, by which certain regions of the country have been erected into civil governments. These governments have an executive, a legislative, and a judicial system. They have the powers which all these departments of government have exercised, which are conferred upon them by act of congress; and their legisla tive acts are subject to the disapproval of the congress of the United States. They are not in any sense independent governments. They have no senators in congress, and no representatives in the lower house of that body except what are called ‘delegates’ with limited functions. Yet they exercise nearly all the powers of government under what are generally called ‘organic acts’, passed by congress, conferring such powers on them. It is this class of governments, long known by the name of ‘territories’, that the act of congress excepts from the operation of this statute. * * *"”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 330 F. Supp. 371 - United States v. Standard Oil Co.

2. ““The district judge, in exercising his jurisdiction under section 1014, Rev. St., to issue a warrant for the removal of Horner to the southern district of Hlinois, had a .right to determine whether or not the offense was within the jurisdiction of the district court of the United States for that district, and that determination was reviewable by habeds corpus.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re Greene

3. “An objection is made to the indictment that it was not signed by the district attorney of the United States; but, as the indictment was found by the grand jury, and indorsed as a true bill by the foreman, and filed in open court according to law, we do not see that there is any error on that subject; certainly, none which goes to the jurisdiction of the court.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. United States v. Easton