United States v. Eddy’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

27 federal appellate · 2 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"Whoever falsely makes, alters, forges, or counterfeits any deed, power of attorney, order, certificate, receipt, contract, or other writing, for the purpose of obtaining or receiving, or of enabling any other person, either directly or indirectly, to obtain or receive from the United States or any officers or agents thereof, any sum of money; or "Whoever utters or publishes as true any such false, forged, altered, or counterfeited writing, with intent to defraud the United States, knowing the same to be false, altered, forged, or counterfeited; . . . shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than ten years or both. [Emphasis added]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 420 So. 2d 292 - Carter v. State

2. “(a) whoever commits an offense against the United States or aids, abets, counsels, commands, induces or procures its commission, is punishable as a principal. (b) whoever willfully causes an act to be done which if directly performed by him or another would be an offense against the United States, is punishable as a principal. 18 U.S.C. § 2 .”

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

3. “There was no proof, direct or circumstantial, introduced which tended to show that these fingerprints were left on the check during the course of uttering it....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Gibson v. Collins