Summers v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

22 federal appellate · 27 district · 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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The trial court expressed its recognition of the difference between a district and cir cuit court of the United States and a territorial court, such as the district court of Alaska was expressed to be, but was of opinion that when the latter court exercises jurisdiction to enforce the laws of the United States, ‘not only the substantive law, but the machinery, the procedure which enables the court to enforce the substantive law/ applied.. The circuit court of appeals, in a circumstantial opinion, reached the same general result and considered that the Alaskan Code, by its title and some of its provisions, explicitly specialized the crimes relating to Alaska and the procedure applicable to them. The title of the act is, it was said, ‘An Act to Define and Punish Crimes in the District of Alaska, and to Provide a Code of Criminal Procedure for Said District;' the enacting clause is, ‘That the penal and criminal laws of the .United States of America, and the procedure thereunder relating to the District of Alaska, shall be as follows:’ and § 2, chapter 1, title 1, provides: ‘That the crimes and offenses defined in this act, committed within the District of Alaska, shall he punished as herein provided.’ It was hence concluded that as the offense charged in the indictment was not one mentioned in the Alaskan Code, it was not one to be governed by the local procedure, but was left under the procedure prescribed in section 1024 of the Revised Statutes. The conclusion was fortified b”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Porto Rico v. Zayas

2. ““(a) There is created a court of record to be designated the District Court of Guam’, and the judicial authority of Guam shall be vested in the District Court of Guam and in such court or courts as may have been or may hereafter be established by the laws of Guam. The District Court of Guam shall have, in all causes arising under the laws of the United States, the jurisdiction of a district court of the United States as such court is defined in section 451 of Title 28, and shall have original jurisdiction in all other causes in Guam, jurisdiction over which has not been transferred by the legislature to other court or courts established by it, and shall have such appellate jurisdiction as the legislature may determine. The jurisdiction of and the procedure in the courts of Guam other than the District Court of Guam shall be prescribed by the laws of Guam.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hatchett v. Government of Guam