Hackfeld Company v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

63 federal appellate · 5 district · 30 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 138 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The word ‘neglect,’ as sometimes used, imports an absence of care or attention in the doing or omission of a given act, or it may be used in the sense of an omission or failure to perform some act. To ‘neglect’ is not always synonymous with to ‘omit.’ Whether the use of the term is intended to express carelessness or lack, of attention required by the circumstances, or to express merely a failure to do a given thing, depends upon the connection in which the term is used and on the meaning intended to be expressed.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State Ex Rel. Dabney v. Sheldon

2. ““The rule that penal laws are to be construed strictly is, perhaps, not much less old than construction itself. It is founded on the tenderness of the law for the rights of individuals, and on the plain principle that the power of punishment is vested in the legislative, not in the judicial, department. It is the legislature, not the court, which is to define a crime and ordain its punishment.' ’”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 68 Cal. App. 2d 853 - People v. Noble

3. ““This statute imports a duty, and, in the absence of a requirement that it shall be performed at all hazards, we think no more ought to be required than a faithful and careful effort to carry out the duty imposed.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. H. Hackfeld & Co. v. United States