Foster v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 1 district · 12 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “A judge should accord to every person who is legally interested in a proceeding, or his [or her] lawyer, full right to be heard according to law, and, except as authorized by law, neither initiate nor consider ex parte or other communications concerning a pending or impending proceeding. 12”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re WTL · In re W.T.L.

2. “Accordingly, because nothing in the record suggests that the trial judge's initiation of an ex parte communication ... either biased the trial judge's opinion or caused the trial judge to receive ex parte information that appellant had no opportunity to challenge, we conclude the trial judge's violation of Canon 3(A)(4) did not substantially prejudice appellant.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In Re WTL · In re W.T.L.

3. “[a] trial judge generally may consider information from a wide variety of sources in evaluating the appropriate sentence”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In Re WTL · In Re MC