Foster v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 federal appellate · 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Under 18 U.S.C.A. § 3500 the defendant is entitled, ‘After a witness called by the United States has testified on direct examination, * * * ’ (emphasis supplied) to any written statement ‘ * * * signed or otherwise adopted or approved by him’ which is in the pos session of the government and which relates to the subject matter as to which the witness has testified. The purpose is impeachment only. The Act is one of limitation. It circumscribes what may be obtained and the purposé for which it may be used.””

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

2. ““It is * * * incumbent upon the defense to be definitive in their request (made under the Jencks Act), at least to the extent of limiting their demands to ‘statements’ (producible thereunder) before there is any duty on the prosecution or the court to seek out and produce such material.” (Par. added.)”

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

3. ““Subsection (a) requires that no statement of a government witness made to an agent of the Government and in the Government’s possession shall be turned over to the defense until the witness has testified on direct examination.””

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