Long v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 district · 18 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Statements are nontestimonial when made in the course of police interrogation under circumstances objectively indicating that the primary purpose of the interrogation is to enable police assistance to meet an ongoing emergency. They are testimonial when such circumstances objectively indicate that there is no such ongoing emergency, and that the primary purpose of the interrogation is to establish or prove past events potentially relevant to later criminal prosecution.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Smith v. United States

2. “this court must view the evidence in the light most favorable to the government, keeping in mind the right of the trier of fact to assess credibility and to draw reasonable inferences from the evidence.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. In Re Dw

3. “The government is not required to negate every possible inference of innocence.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. In Re Dw