United States v. Pollard’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

23 federal appellate · 2 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““[S]ince the Government chooses to utilize such agents, with the attendant risk of entrapment, it is fair to require the Government which uses this inherently dangerous procedure to take appropriate precautions to insure that no innocent man should be punished. * •» * * # * If [the informant] is available for hire, he should be available to come and testify. . . . We think whether there was a failure to expend every reasonable effort to obtain the Witness is a question of fact for the trial judge.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. United States v. Pollard · United States v. Barnes

2. ““ ‘to the trial court for the [limited] purpose of holding a further hearing at which the government shall be given the opportunity of proving if such be the case, that it was genuinely unable through reasonable efforts to produce [Floyd] and also, if such be the case, that the government did not take steps to see to it that [Floyd] would be or become unavailable as a witness. The burden of proving these things should be on the government.’ ””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. United States v. Kitchen · United States v. Pollard