Scott v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

19 federal appellate · 3 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “evidence consisted of news media publicity revealing evidence pertinent to the grand jury investigation. Some of the media reports attributed the information to “government sources” or to “sources close to the investigation.” The district court was justifiably unimpressed inasmuch as news reporters, as all the world knows, invariably attribute the information they receive to “confidential sources” and, in connection with stories of this nature, to “unnamed sources close to the investigation.” Furthermore, the judge noted that much of the material appearing in those news reports could have been disseminated during the Government investigation that preceded impanelment of the jury or by the rumor mills that grind into motion before such investigations begin.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In Re Grand Jury Investigation. · United States v. Dorfman

2. “Persons charging irregularities in the course of grand jury proceedings must present 'a concrete basis' supporting the inference of misconduct.”

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

3. “within 'the limited class of cases where denial of immediate review would render impossible any review whatsoever....'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re Grand Jury Subpoenas on Barrett