United States v. Windham’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 federal appellate · 9 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Taking the new statute as a whole, its provisions would appear to cover and provide for the punishment of every act which could be punished under the former provisions of the Revised Statutes with regard to the manufacture and sale of liquors for beverage purposes. To hold that the old law is continued would therefore be to hold that two inconsistent sets of statutory provisions, punishing the same substantial act, and with differing penalties, were of force, and that a person could be prosecuted and punished under section 3 and section 6 of the new statute for transporting any liquor •at all, without the required permit, and at the same time prosecuted and punished under thé provisions of section 3296 for transporting liquor without having previously paid the tax that he is forbidden by law to pay.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Reed v. Thurmond

2. “Nor shall this act relieve any person from any liability, civil or criminal, heretofore or hereafter incurred under existing laws.”

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