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5 canonical passages across 5 cases, quoted by 23 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side: they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from United States v. Yanez-Huerta.

#Case FlagCanonical passage Citers
1 United States v. Yanez-Huerta Anchor
ca5 · 2000
green “a refusal to grant a downward departure is a violation of law only if the court mistakenly assumes that it lacks authority to depart.” 5
2 United States v. Archie Kelly
ca5 · 1992
green “required to receive a supervised release term of not less than nor more than three years.” 5
3 United States v. Hugh Von Meshack Lawayne Thomas Linda Parker Terrence Ian Hodges, Also Known as Guda
ca5 · 2000
green “under plain error review, we correct overlong terms of supervised release.” 5
4 United States v. Billy Mel Alford
ca5 · 1998
green “estimates of the quantity of drugs for sentencing purposes.” 4
5 United States v. Daniel Vasquez
ca5 · 1998
green “the government has the burden of proof under 2d1.1 of showing by a preponderance of the evidence 'that a temporal and spatial relation existed between the weapon, the drug trafficking activity, and the defendant.” 4

A red or yellow flag on a member means the underlying case has negative treatment: for those, check the case page before relying on the passage.

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