United States v. Ruhbayan’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate ·

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

1. “Just as the lobbyists in Ellis sought to persuade West Virginia legislators to pass a particular bill without knowing of the underlying illicit circumstances, [defendant’s trial lawyer] presented and argued perjured testimony to the jury without knowledge of its falsity or of defendant’s scheme to obstruct justice. Similarly, both the jury at defendant’s 2000 trial and the legislators in Ellis acted in the final step of effecting the respective criminal participants' frauds ... As this court observed at defendant’s sentencing, the frauds perpetrated by defendant attack the very core of our judicial system, just as the frauds perpetrated in Ellis went to the very core of our legislative system.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 427 F. Supp. 2d 640 - United States v. Ruhbayan

2. “a fraud that involved only three participants but used the unknowing services of many outsiders could be considered extensive.”

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

3. “most importantly, the twelve jurors who returned verdicts based upon the perjured testimony presented at the [First Trial].”

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