United States v. Morrison’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

23 federal appellate · 1 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “We take this opportunity to restate what was implicit in our former decision [United States v. Pugliese, 346 F.2d 861 (2 Cir. 1965)]: assuming that the government has initiated or set in motion the acts of the defendant, the entrapment defense probes not only the predisposition of the defendant to commit the crime with which he is charged, but alternatively, the conduct of the government in promoting the commission of the crime.”

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

2. ““1) Did the agent induce the accused to commit the offense charged in the indictment; 2) If so, was the accused ready and willing without persuasion and was he awaiting any propitious opportunity to commit the offense;”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 265 F. Supp. 980 - United States v. Dillet

3. “whether, in exposing the defendant's criminality, the government agents have acted in an offensive manner or lived up to reasonably decent civilized standards for the proper use of government power.”

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