Reale v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 district · 7 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “the [tourist] standard is a means of determining if a statute, as applied in a particular ease, is constitutional. The issue of a statute’s constitutionality arises only where it is raised as a defense to prosecution. Thus, the government need not establish the constitutionality of its statutes each time it prosecutes a defendant.”

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