Middleton v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 federal appellate · 1 district · 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 indictment alleged, in substance, that appellant and others at a time and place named, knowingly and unlawfully conspired to commit the offenses against the United States of possessing intoxicating liquor in violation of the National 1 Prohibition Act, and of transport ing intoxicating liquor in violation of the National Prohibition Act. The count charging conspiracy is somewhat meager in stating the usual details of an alleged conspiracy, but the allegation properly was as broad as the conspiracy itself. * * * If there was an unlawful agreement by the defendants to possess and transport intoxicating liquor in violation of the National Prohibition Act * * *,. and acts were done by the defendants to carry out the agreement, then there was a conspiracy to violate that law, although no method of executing the- conspiracy may have been agreed upon. * * * It is not necessary to state the details of the offense which is the object of a conspiracy as particularly as in charging the commission of the offense. * * * ” 49 F.2d at page 539 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 114 F. Supp. 192 - United States v. Westbrook