Metheany v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

44 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Joinder of Defendants. Two or more defendants may be charged in the same indictment or information if they are alleged to have participated in the same act or transaction or in the same series of acts or transactions constituting an offense or offenses. Such defendants may be charged in one or more counts together or separately and all of the defendants need not be charged in each count.” (Emphasis supplied.)”

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

2. “"... any misjoined defendant who suffer[s] a conviction [is] entitled to a new trial separate from the others for the reason that `[i]t cannot be said in such case that all the defendants may not have been embarrassed and prejudiced in their defence, or that the attention of the jury may not have been distracted to their injury in passing upon distinct and independent transactions.'"”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 298 So. 2d 433 - Wilson v. State

3. “The term “material matter” refers not only to the main fact which is the subject of inquiry, but also to any fact or circumstance which tends to corroborate or strengthen the proof adduced to establish the main fact.”

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