Bond v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

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6 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 state decisions

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

1. “In settling on a fair reading of a statute, it is not unusual to consider the ordinary meaning of a defined term, particularly when there is dissonance between that ordinary meaning and the reach of the definition.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Robinson v. U.S. Dep't of Educ. · United States v. Dion

2. “[I]t is 'a well-established principle governing the prudent exercise of this Court's jurisdiction that normally the Court will not decide a constitutional question if there is some other ground upon which to dispose the case.' " Bond v. United States , 572 U.S. 844 , 855, 134 S.Ct. 2077 , 189 L.Ed.2d 1 (2014) (quoting Escambia Cty. v. McMillan , 466 U.S. 48 , 51, 104 S.Ct. 1577 , 80 L.Ed.2d 36 (1984) (per curiam)). An appeal "brings before this Court not merely the constitutional question decided below, but the entire case,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Baca v. Colo. Dep't of State

3. “case. Id. at 2090, 2092-93 . At issue there was a conviction under the Chemical Weapons Convention Implementation Act of 1998 (the”

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