United States v. Korpan’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

41 federal appellate · 6 district · 7 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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““If the respondent’s position were adopted § 4462 (a) (2) would be restricted to a peculiar type of gambling device — the so-called “one-armed bandit” — even though ingenuity, a desire to avoid taxes, and technological progress provide a multitude of new devices which permit substantially the same kind of gambling but only with a different kind of coin-operated machine. We are convinced that Congress had no such purpose and meant only to distinguish between ‘slot-machines’ operated as gambling devices and ‘slot-machines’ which were used exclusively for amusement.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. 20 "Dealer's Choice" Machines & Coin Contents of $3.50

2. ““(C) an amusement machine operated by means of the insertion of a coin, token, or similar object, but not including any device defined in paragraph (2) of this subsection,””

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

3. “machines played purely for amusement which offered the player no expectation of receiving 'cash, premiums, merchandise, or tokens'”

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