White v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

28 federal appellate · 2 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It was competent to be considered by the jury in passing upon the credibility of the witness and in determining the defendant’s intent. The letter was not a subsequent self-serving act. It was written, according to the witness, before the return was filed, and the jury might well have believed that the letter showed better than any other evidence the defendant’s state of mind and his intention in filing the return.” 216 F.2d 1, 6 .”

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

2. ““Statements of design or plan, as already noticed (ante, Sec. 1725), are in general admissible, so far as the design or plan is relevant to show the doing of the act designed. * * * Upon the same principle, the expressions of plan, by the accused, not to do the thing charged, or to do a different thing, are equally admissible.” VI Wigmore on Evidence, 3rd Ed., § 1732, p. 99. (Emphases in original.)”

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

3. ““Rule 5(c) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure [18 U.S.C.A.] have [sic] been construed to permit the District Court to take judicial notice of the proceedings before the Commissioner on preliminary examination which have been transmitted to the Clerk of the District Court. See White v. United States, 5 Cir., 216 F.2d 1 , 4.””

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