State v. Pike’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 district · 10 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The matters from which the charge now before us arises are alleged to have occurred under, and in the course of the execution of, the laws of the United States. Those laws required certain things to be done. Congress had the right to prescribe how they should be done, to regulate the duties of all persons who acted under the law, and to proscribe penalties for the violation of such duties. In such case, if acts are clone which, if transacted under the laws of this state, would have constituted offenses within the provisions of our Criminal Code, yet, being done in pursuance of the laws of another government (having- the sole power to regulate the whole proceeding) authorizing the act to be done, prescribing the mode, imposing the duty, and affixing the penally for the violation of it the acts cannot be regarded as having been done under the sanction of the laws of this state, so as to subject the parties to punishment under those laws.””

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