Confiscation Cases’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

127 federal appellate · 40 district · 36 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 308 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Public prosecutions, until they come before the court to which they are returnable, are within the exclusive direction of the district attorney, and even after they are entered in court, they are so far under his control that he may enter a nolle prosequi at any time before the jury is empaneled for the trial of the case, except in cases where it is otherwise provided in some act of Congress.”

   10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re Richards · United States v. Rosenthal

2. ““Appointed, as the Attorney-General is, in pursuance of an act of Congress, to prosecute and conduct such suits, argument would seem to be unnecessary to prove his authority to dispose of these cases in the manner proposed in the respective motions under consideration, * * *.” 2”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. 1,960 Acres of Land · 106 F. Supp. 475 - Halbach v. Markham

3. “It has .been decided “that the Secretary had authority, under that act, to remit a 'forfeiture, at any time before or after a final decree or judgment, until the money was actually paid over to the collector for distribution.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. 150 7/12 Dozen Long Gloves · In re Beloochistan Rug Weaving Co.