The United States v. Isaac Morris’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 federal appellate · 24 district · 17 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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““In expounding a penal statute the court certainly will not extend it beyond the plain meaning of its words; for it has been long and well settled that such statutes must be construed strictly. Yet the evident intention of the legislature oueht not to be defeated by a forced and overstrict construction.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. French v. Foley · Bircher v. United States

2. ““Tlio Intention of tlie Legislature is to be collected from the words they employ. Where there is no ambiguity in the words, there is no room for construction.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. French v. Foley · United States v. Four Hundred & Twenty Dollars

3. ““To be employed in anything means not only the act of doing it, but also to be engaged to do it; to be under contract or orders to do it.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Fjeldahl v. Homer Co-op. Ass'n