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4 canonical passages across 4 cases, quoted by 15 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. Law.

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1 United States v. Law Anchor
cadc · 2008
green “for policy reasons unrelated to innocence or an error of law.” 4
2 United States v. Dyke
ca10 · 2013
green “it's unclear why a federal statute aimed at punishing recidivism (as 841(b)(1)(a) is) would afford the defendant” 4
3 United States v. Norbury
ca9 · 2007
green “whether a defendant's prior state conviction was a 'conviction' within the meaning of 841 is a question of federal, not state, law.” 4
4 United States v. Gerald Ray Bergeman
ca9 · 1979
green “although the state's statute can determine the status of the conviction for purposes of state law, it cannot rewrite history for the purposes of the administration of the federal criminal law or the interpretation of federal criminal statutes.” 3

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