United States v. Kitchen’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 federal appellate · 1 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The record demonstrates that the government at a pretrial proceeding assured both the court and defendant that the informant, Sammy Floyd, would be available to testify at trial. The record shows that Floyd did not appear at trial and the trial court excused the government from producing the informant on the government’s statement that Floyd’s whereabouts were unknown at the time of trial. The record demonstrates that Floyd may have possessed material knowledge relating to the defendant’s participation in the charge of his distributing cocaine on September 24, 1971.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. United States v. Kitchen

2. “The government has failed to prove that “it was genuinely unable through reasonable efforts to produce * * informant Sammy Floyd at trial. The government took no “steps to see to it that [Floyd] would be or become unavailable as a witness.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. United States v. Kitchen