Ross v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

37 federal appellate · 1 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ * * * But the first sentence of Rule 8(b) limits the joinder of defendants in the same indictment only to situations where they are alleged to have participated in the same act or transaction, or in the same series of acts or transactions constituting an offense or offenses. In other words, different unconnected offenses not arising out of the same series of transactions may not be joined in an indictment in which two or more defendants are charged. There is a good reason for that restriction. This is no technical limitation. The purpose is to prevent mass trials.””

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

2. ““In passing upon the sufficiency of the proof, it is not our province to weigh the evidence or to determine the credibility of witnesses. We must take that view of the evidence most favorable to the government and sustain the verdict of the jury if there be substantial evidence to support it.””

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

3. “has no application to different counts in the same indictment or to consolidated indictments.”

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