United States v. Bender’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(a) the court is reasonably well satisfied that the testimony given by a material witness is false; (b) the jury might have reached a different conclusion absent the false testimony or if it had known that testimony by a material witness was false; and (c) the party seeking the new trial was taken by surprise when the false testimony was given and was unable to meet it or did not know of its falsity until after the trial.”

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

2. “[S]elling drugs on credit is especially indicative of a conspiracy because it gives the seller a stake in the buyer’s successful resale of the drugs.”) (alteration in original) (quoting United States v. Bender, 539 F.3d 449 , 454 (7th Cir.2008)). 2 . E.g., United States v. Vallar, 635 F.3d 271 , 287 (7th Cir.2011). 3 . E.g., United States v. Reid, 523 F.3d 310 , 317 (4th Cir.2008) (”

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

3. “a rational trier of fact could have found the buyer-seller rule inapplicable to the facts of this case” because, among other things, the”

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