Blumenthal v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
158 F.2d 762 · 1947
Citation profile
8 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1966
8 federal appellate ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Kotteakos v. United States · Canella v. United States · Blumenthal v. United States · Paddock v. United States
Most-quoted passages
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““That Harry Blumenthal, Louis Abel, Lawrence B. Goldsmith, Samuel S. Weiss, and Albert Feigenbaum, (hereinafter called ‘said-defendants’) at a time and place to said Grand Jurors unknown, did knowingly, wilfully, unlawfully, corruptly, and feloni-ously conspire, combine, confederate, arrange, and agree together and with divers other persons, whose names are to the Grand Jurors unknown, to commit offenses against the United States of America and the laws thereof, the offenses being to knowingly, wilfully and unlawfully sell at wholesale certain distilled spirits, to-wit, Old Mr. Boston Rocking Chair Whiskey, in excess of and higher than the maximum price established by law, said maximum price at wholesale then and there being not in excess of $25.27 per case of twelve bottles, each of said twelve bottles containing one-fifth of one. gallon of said Old Mr. Boston Rocking Chair Whiskey, in violation of Section 902(a), 904(a), and 925(b) of Title 50 U.S.C.A.Appendix, and Office of Price Administration Regulations : Maximum Price Regulation 193 and Maximum Price Regulation 445. “And the said Grand Jurors, upon their oaths aforesaid, do further charge and present: That in pursuance of, and in furtherance of, in execution of, and for the purpose of carrying out, and to effect the object and design and purposes of* said conspiracy, combination, confederation, and agreement aforesaid, the hereinafter named defendants did, at the times hereinafter set forth, commit the following overt ”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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