United States v. Sapp’s Empirical Analysis
439 F.2d 817 · 1971
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently November 2017
9 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
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.
Relationships
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 7237
Relies on Minor v. United States · Walker v. City of Birmingham · Williams v. Beto · United States v. Woodall · Trujillo v. United States
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“****** The Court: You are Burroughs? Defendant Burroughs: Yes, sir. * * * * . * * (Count three of the indictment was read) Mr. Aguilar: To count three of this indictment Robert Gilbert Burroughs, how do you plead, guilty or not guilty? Defendant Burroughs: Guilty. The Court: Each of you young men is entering the guilty plea because in fact you are guilty of the offense? Defendant Burroughs: Yes, sir. ****** The Court: You understand what it is you are charged with? Defendant Burroughs: Yes, sir. ****** The Court: It is charged here that about February 13, about two months ago, here in Texas and near Laredo, each of you received a transfer of possession of about one and a half pounds of marijuana from some other person. He was the transferor and each of you was the transferee; that a certain tax imposed by law on that transfer was not paid and it thus became an illegal transaction. You knew that to be the case, and with that knowledge, you thereafter transported it and concealed it. Did each of you do that? Defendant Burroughs: Yes, sir. * * sH * * The Court: I advise you this is a serious felony violation, calling for a minimum sentence of two years and a maximum sentence of ten years and a fine of twenty thousand dollars. You are aware of that circumstance? Defendant Burroughs: Yes, sir. % ‡ # sfc * * The Court: I advise you, too, that as to this third count of the indictment, each of you has a complete defense available to you if you desire to take advantage of it. It is ba”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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