Andersen v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

44 federal appellate · 9 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 137 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “the Government was not required to make the charge in the alternative,”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Boireau v. Rhode Island Co. · 803 So. 2d 485 - Cooley v. State

2. ““The law, in recognition of the frailty of human nature, regards a homicide committed under the influence of sudden passion, or in hot blood, produced by adequate cause, and before a reasonable time has elapsed for the blood to cool, as an offense of a less heinous character than murder. But if there be sufficient time for the passion to subside, and shaken reason to resume its sway, no such distinction can be entertained. And if the circumstances show a killing ‘with deliberate mind and formed design,’ with comprehension of the act and determination to perform it, the elements of self-defense being wanting, the act is murder. Nor is the presumption of malice negatived by previous provocation, having no causal connection with the murderous act, or separated from it by such an interval of time as gives reasonable opportunity for the excess of fury to moderate.” Anderson v. U. S., 170 U. S. 510 , 511, 18 Sup. Ct. 697 , 42 L. Ed. 1126 .”

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