United States v. Register’s Empirical Analysis
496 F.2d 1072 · 1974
Citation profile
63 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2014 · most notably United States v. Myers (1977), Usery v. Tamiami Trail Tours, Inc. (1976)
63 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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 18 U.S.C. § 3500 · 18 U.S.C. § 545 · 19 U.S.C. § 1434 (Tariff Act of 1930) · 21 U.S.C. § 801 (§ 101 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Wong Sun v. United States · Carroll v. United States · Chambers v. Maroney · United States v. Russell
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There has been evidence in this case that on October 9, 1981, following Mr. Border’s [sic] arrest in Arlington, Virginia, Mr. Hemphill Pride informed Judge Hastings that Mr. Borders had been arrested in connection with an alleged bribery in Judge Hastings’ court and that FBI agents wished to interview him. The Government has argued to you that Judge Hastings’ departure from the L’Enfant Plaza Hotel in Washington and his return in Miami without contacting the FBI agents shows a consciousness of guilt on his part. I therefore instruct you as follows: Intentional flight by a person immediately after a crime has been committed or after that person has been accused of a crime that has been committed is not, of course, sufficient in itself to establish the guilt of that person, but intentional flight under those circumstances is a fact which, if proved, may be considered by the Jury in the light of all the other evidence in the case in determining the guilt or innocence of that person. Whether or not Judge Hastings’ conduct constituted flight is exclusively for you, as the Jury, to determine. And if you do so determine whether or not that flight showed a consciousness of guilt on his part and the significance to be attached to that evidence are also matters exclusively for you as a jury to determine. I do remind you that in your consideration of any evidence of flight, if you should find that there was flight you should also consider that there may be reasons for this which are ful”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“COUNT 1: That from on or about January 13, 1975, to on or about January 17, 1975, within the Brownsville Division of the Southern District of Texas, DAVID TERANCE TU-LEY, ROBERT JOSEPH MULLER, SR., and FRANK CHRISTIAN OLLER knowingly and intentionally did combine, conspire, confederate, and agree together and with each other and with other persons unknown to the Grand Jurors to unlawfully possess, with intent to distribute, a quantity of marihuana, a controlled substance under Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act of 1970, in violation of Sections 846 and 848(a)(1), Title 21, United States Code. Pursuant to and for the purpose of carrying out said unlawful combination, confederation, conspiracy, and agreement and to effectuate the objects thereof, the following and other overt acts were committed within the Brownsville Division of the Southern District of Texas: Overt Acts 1. On or about January 13, 1975, FRANK CHRISTIAN OLLER and DAVID TERANCE TULEY registered at the Ramada Inn, Brownsville, Texas. 2. On or about January 15, 1975, at approximately 10:30 a.m., FRANK CHRISTIAN OLLER and DAVID TERANCE TULEY departed Apartment No. 1 at the Queen Isabel Inn, Port Isabel, Texas. 3. On or about January 15, 1975, at approximately 11:45 a.m., FRANK CHRISTIAN OLLER and DAVID TERANCE TULEY departed the Ramada Inn, Brownsville, Texas. 4. On or about January 15, 1975, at approximately 4 p.m., FRANK CHRISTIAN OL-LER and DAVID TERANCE TULEY met at the Queen Isabel Inn, Port Isabel, T”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“If any person shall knowingly and willfully, with intent to. defraud the revenue of the United States, smuggle, or clandestinely introduce, into the United States, any goods, and which should have been invoiced, without paying or accounting for the duty, or shall make out or pass, or attempt to pass, through the custom-house, any false, forged or fraudulent invoice, every such person, his, her, or their aiders and abettors, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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