United States v. Weller’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

55 federal appellate · 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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““If an appeal shall be taken, pursuant to this section, to the Supreme Court of the United States which, in the opinion of that Court, should have been taken to a court of appeals, the Supreme Court shall remand the case to the court of appeals, which shall then have jurisdiction to hear and determine the same as if the appeal had been taken to that court in the first instance.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. United States v. Ponto · United States v. Weller

2. ““An appeal may be taken by and on behalf of the United States from the district courts to a court of appeals in all criminal cases, in the following instances : “From a decision or judgment setting aside, or dismissing any indictment or information, or any count thereof except where a direct appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States is provided by this section.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. United States v. Ponto · United States v. Weller

3. “First, a “motion in bar” must be taken to mean whatever was meant by a “special plea in bar” in the [Criminal Appeals] Act as originally passed in 1907. Second, this Court has never settled on a definitive interpretation of what constitutes a “motion in bar.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. DiStefano · United States v. Grimmett