Wilson v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

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137 federal appellate · 20 district · 39 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 246 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The prohibition is not'in terms confined to transportation by common carrier, nor need such limitation be implied * * * to sustain the constitutionality of the enactment. As has already been decided, -it has the quality of a police regulation, although enacted in the exercise of the power to regulate interstate commerce (Hoke v. United States, 227 U. S. 308 , 323; Gloucester Ferry Co. v. Pennsylvania, 114 U. S. 196 , 215) ; and since this power is complete in itself, it was discretionary with Congress whether the prohibition should be extended to transportation by others than common carriers.””

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

2. “the evidence was not offered or admitted for its bearing upon [witness’s] character, but rather to show that [witness] was so much addicted to the use of the drug that the question whether, at the moment of testifying, [witness] was under its influence, or had recovered from the effects of its last administration, had a material bearing upon [witness’s] reliability as a witness. It seems to us that in this aspect the evidence was admissible.”

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

3. “It is argued that the end and object of the act is to prevent immorality and trafficking in girls, and not the mere act of transportation. But we think that by the plain language of the statute, tlie offense is complete when ‘any such woman or girl shall be transported in interstate or foreign commerce, or in any Territory or the District of Columbia’ as a result of any of the criminal acts previously described.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Caballero v. Hudspeth