United States v. Freeman’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

13 federal appellate ·

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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"only because the witness may have been impeached by certain discrepancies in [her] story, by prior inconsistent statements, or by the existence of a motive to provide evidence favorable to the government." To find a witness's testimony to be incredible as a matter of law, it must have been "physically impossible for the witness to have observed that which he claims occurred, or impossible under the laws of nature for the occurrence to have taken place at all."”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Ortiz v. Martinez · U.S. v. Cherry

2. “[t]he police had credible information about Freeman's drug-trafficking habits from the cooperating informants, and his activities just prior to his arrest coincided perfectly with the details of the undercover operation, thus supplying probable cause to arrest despite the fact that no drugs were found in the search during the stop.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. U.S. v. Cherry · United States v. Deandre Cherry

3. “the police on the scene had plenty of information to give them probable cause to believe that [the defendant] had committed the crime,”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. U.S. v. Cherry · United States v. Deandre Cherry