United States v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
977 F.2d 503 · 1992
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district ·
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 3731 · 21 U.S.C. § 801 (§ 101 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 857
Relies on Grayned v. City of Rockford · Hoffman Estates v. Flipside, Hoffman Estates, Inc. · Morissette v. United States · Grayned v. City of Rockford · Brewster v. Derwinski
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The term `drug paraphernalia' means any equipment, product, or material of any kind which is primarily intended or designed for use in manufacturing, compounding, converting, concealing, producing, processing, preparing, injecting, ingesting, inhaling, or otherwise introducing into the human body a controlled substance, possession of which is unlawful under the Controlled Substances Act (title II of Public Law 91-513 ) [ 21 U. S. C. §§ 801 et seq.]. It includes items primarily intended or designed for use in ingesting, inhaling, or otherwise introducing marijuana, cocaine, hashish, hashish oil, PCP, or amphetamines into the human body, such as "(1) metal, wooden, acrylic, glass, stone, plastic, or ceramic pipes with or without screens, permanent screens, hashish heads, or punctured metal bowls; "(2) water pipes; "(3) carburetion tubes and devices; "(4) smoking and carburetion masks; "(5) roach clips: meaning objects used to hold burning material, such as a marihuana cigarette, that has become too small or too short to be held in the hand; "(6) miniature spoons with level capacities of one-tenth cubic centimeter or less; "(7) chamber pipes; "(8) carburetor pipes; "(9) electric pipes; "(10) air-driven pipes; "(11) chillums; "(12) bongs; "(13) ice pipes or chillers; "(14) wired cigarette papers; or "(15) cocaine freebase kits.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) to sell or offer for sale drug paraphernalia; (2) to use the mails or any other facility of interstate commerce to transport drug paraphernalia; or (3) to import or export drug paraphernalia.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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