Steele v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

93 federal appellate · 1 district · 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 99 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[W]e agree with appellant that the jury could scarcely consider this act of the court [sending the exhibit to the jury room] other than as investing these exhibits with an air of credibility as demonstrative evidence over and above, and independent of, the evidence which they purported to summarize and embody, with the undoubted effect of completely erasing from the minds of the jury, as to the so-called exhibits, any therapeutic effect the charge to the jury that the exhibits were not original evidence and were not binding upon the jury, was intended or calculated to have.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Baines v. United States · 578 So. 2d 750 - Newberry Square Dev. Corp. v. Southern Landmark, Inc.

2. “undertook to evaluate it, endeavoring to pass upon the reliability and credibility of certain witnesses and to determine what weight should be given their testimony, so that ... the Government, through its witness Howard, was enabled to invade, indeed to take over the province of the jury.”

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