Walsh v. Brady’s Empirical Analysis

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2 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “include the authority to regulate or prohibit, directly or indirectly, the importation ... or the exportation ..., whether commercial or otherwise, of publications, films, posters, phonograph records, photographs, microfilms, microfiche, tapes, or other informational materials, which are not otherwise controlled for export under section 5 of the Export Administration Act of 1979 or with respect to which no acts are prohibited by chapter 37 of title 18, United States Code.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 740 F. Supp. 1007 - Capital Cities/ABC, Inc. v. Brady

2. “Walsh has established that travel to a foreign country is a normal and perhaps a necessary incident on occasion, as in the case of Cuba, to arrange for imports of political posters into the United States.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Walsh v. Brady

3. “[a]ll financial and other transactions directly incident to the physical importation ... of informational materials.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Walsh v. Brady