85 Misc. 2d 529 - People v. Collier’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
September 1991
most recently cited
Most-quoted passages
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“[BOSS's] function remained essentially the same to investigate and control trouble-making subversives, whoever they may be.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“until the work of other agents led to the arrest of sixteen members for planning to assassinate Roy Wilkens [sic], Whitney Young, Jr., and others.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ferguson v. FBI
How this case has been treated — in progress
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