United States v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

38 federal appellate · 4 district · 6 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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““See. 2139. No ardent spirits, ale, beer, wine, or intoxicating liquor or liquors of whatever kind shall be .introduced, under any pretense, into the Indian country. Every person who sells, exchanges, gives, barters, or disposes of any ardent spirits, ale, beer, wine, or intoxicating liquors of any kind to any Indian under charge of any Indian superintendent or agent, or introduces or attempts to introduce any ardent spirits, ale, wine, beer, or intoxicating liquor of any kind into the Indian country shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than two years, and by a fine, of not more than three hundred dollars for each offense. But it shall be a sufficient defense to any charge of introducing or attempting to introduce ardent spirits, ale, beer, wine, or intoxicating liquors into the Indian country that the acts charged were done under authority in writing from the War Department, or any officer duly authorized thereunto by the War Department. All complaints for the arrest of any person or persons made for violation of any of the provisions of this act shall be made in the county where the offense shall have been committed, or if ■committed upon or within any reservation not included in any county, then in any county adjoining such reservation, and, if in the Indian Territory, before the United States court commissioner, or commissioner of the circuit court of the United States residing nearest the place where the offense was committed, who is not for any reason disquali”

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

2. ““That the manufacture, sale, barter, .giving away, or otherwise furnishing * * * of intoxicating liquors within those parts of said state now known as the Indian Territory and 'the Osage Indian Reservation and within any other parts of said state which existed as Indian reservations on the first day of January, nineteen hundred and six, is prohibited for a period- of twenty-one years from the date of the admission of said state into the Union,, and thereafter until the people of said state shall otherwise provide by amendment of said Constitution and proper state legislation. * * * ””

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

3. ““No doubt the Enabling Act, followed by the adoption of the Constitution therein prescribed and the admission of the new state, had the effect of remitting to the state government the enforcement of the prohibition respecting the manufacture, sale, barter, etc., of intoxicating liquors within the state, and respecting commerce in such liquors conducted wholly within the state; and, to the.extent that the scheme of prohibition established by the Enabling. Act covered the same field that had been covered by the act of 1895, the latter act must be considered as impliedly repealed.””

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