Isner v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““We were interested in the argument of the government brief in this case, but are forced to the conclusion that whatever Congress may have meant by inserting the above clause in the Prohibition Act, we are bound to consider and accept the plain language of it. We are forced to the conclusion that Congress intended to take out of the general class of intoxicating liquors nonintoxieating eiders and fruit' juices made by one to be used exclusively in his home, and therefore put nonintoxieating vinegar and such fruit juices in a different class, and required that, before a person can be convicted under the aet for manufacturing such vinegar and fruit juices, same must be proved by the government to be in fact intoxicating.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re Baldi