White v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 federal appellate · 1 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Indictment charging that defendant at Oklahoma City willfully, unlawfully, and fraudulently received, concealed, bought, and facilitated transportation and concealment after importation of smoking opium, under 21 U.S.C.A. § 174 , held insufficient for failure to designate specifically the place where the offense was committed; nature and cause of accusation not being sufficiently stated to comply with Const. Amends. 5, 6. “Under Const. Amends. 5, 6, requiring that indictment inform the accused of the nature and cause of the accusation, indictment must be sufficiently certain as a pleading to enable the defendant to make his defense, by charging the crime with particularity, and must be sufficiently certain to enable him to plead double j eopardy in case he should be indicted again for the same offense.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Safeway Stores, Inc.

2. ““In dealing with laws which are intended equally for the protection of the innocent as well as the punishment of the guilty, too much latitude should not be indulged solely for the purpose of arriving at a desired result in an individual case. The looseness in criminal pleading brought to light in this case should not receive encouragement through judicial sanction.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Frankfort Distilleries, Inc. v. United States