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485 F.2d 576 · 1973

Citation profile

9
cited by 9 later decisions
January 2018
most recently cited

7 federal appellate ·

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Applies 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)

Relies on Ditson v. California · Johnson v. United States · Thomas v. Akin Equipment, Inc. · Black v. United States · Arpan 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Determinations of credibility rest with the trier of fact and not with the appellate court.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority

How this case has been treated — in progress

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