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6 canonical passages across 5 cases, quoted by 19 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. Arbour.

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1 United States v. Arbour Anchor
ca1 · 2009
green “left with the definite and firm conviction that a mistake has been committed.” 4
2 United States v. Gonzalez-Melendez
ca1 · 2009
green “a district court's failure to attempt to inform defense counsel about the existence of a jury note, and further failure to solicit defense council's input regarding any response to such a note, violates rule 43 of the federal rules of criminal procedure.” 3
3 United States v. Gonzalez-Melendez
ca1 · 2009
green “substantially verbatim recital of an oral statement made by a witness,” 3
4 United States v. Antonio Gaudino Vargas
ca1 · 1979
green “the denial or impairment of the right to exercise peremptory challenges is reversible error without a showing or prejudice.” 3
5 United States v. Larry Wayne Carper, Jr.
ca9 · 1994
green “already as short as it could possibly be under the sentencing guidelines,” 3
6 United States v. Pakala
ca1 · 2009
green “it is highly probable that the error did not influence the verdict.” 3

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