United States v. Ruiz’s Empirical Analysis

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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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Large drug conspiracies may involve an extensive, vertically integrated network of manufacturers, packagers, couriers, enforcers, airplane pilots and ships’ crews, wholesalers, retailers, laborers, drivers and look-outs, engaged in repeated transactions over a substantial period of time. It may be clear that the “kingpin” of such an organization is something much more than an “average” participant and that a laborer engaged on a single occasion to load a ship or plane is something less, but one cannot easily take an “average” of the roles of so many diverse participants.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 322 F. Supp. 2d 359 - United States v. Teyer