Cain v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

18 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(5) The contention that defendant was entitled to have a trial jury selected from the entire panel embraced in the venire for the term is, of course, too frivolous for extensive notice. All he was entitled to was a jury of 12 unbiased and unprejudiced jurors out of any part of the regular panel, if there were enough of such panel not engaged in other cases on trial to provide so many; if not, then a jury composed of talesmen, together with such remainder of the regular panel as a nucleus, as were not otherwise engaged and serving. The former he got, and he can ask no more.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Lujan v. People

2. “The question whether the first count does not embrace the identical facts and acts charged in the second count is a serious and difficult one . . . The trouble is not with the law but with the facts. This possibility of a violation of either statute by wholly different acts is readily demonstrable . . . We think, however, it is a question of what was actually done rather than a question of what might have been done.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Treadway