United States v. Libby’s Empirical Analysis

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2 district ·

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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “to look into the future and attempt to divine what evidence each party will present to the jury,” id., making prospective determinations of the relevance and proper use of evidence without knowing with certainty what other evidence the parties would offer or how the trial would unfold extremely difficult, see id. And although the parties did advise the Court how they expected the trial would unfold, the Court expressly recognized that neither the government nor the defense was in a position to”

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