United States v. Bronstein’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “drafters do repeat themselves and do include words that add nothing of substance”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Nation v. Azar · 385 Wis. 2d 748 - Milwaukee District Council 48 v. Milwaukee County

2. “[e]ven trained lawyers may find it necessary to consult legal dictionaries, treatises, and judicial opinions before they may say with any certainty what some statutes may compel or forbid.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Agnew v. Gov't of the Dist. of Columbia · Daryl Agnew v. Government of the District of Columbia

3. “when the vagueness doctrine assesses a legal term's meaning to 'ordinary people,' it is assessing meaning with the elementary rule of statutory interpretation”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Agnew v. Gov't of the Dist. of Columbia · Daryl Agnew v. Government of the District of Columbia