United States v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

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

1. ““In my opinion it is essential that the indictment should allege that the master of the vessel knowingly permitted the person to land. The district attorney asserts that it is extremely difficult to obtain proof in any case that the master knowingly permitted such act. What degree of proof is necessary to establish knowledge on the part of the master is a question which must be determined in each case as it arises; but the statute provides that knowledge is essential to guilt, and, in my opinion, it would be extremely unjust to permit a master of a vessel to be convicted of a misdemeanor for an act done absolutely without his knowledge and against his most strenuous efforts to prevent it.””

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

2. ““The indictment alleged that the defendant did unlawfully allow and permit a certain Chinese sailor and a member of the crew of the steamer to land in and to be landed in the United States at the borough of Brooklyn. The indictment did not allege that the master knowingly permitted him to be landed, and the motion is made to quash the indictment on that ground.””

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