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4 canonical passages across 3 cases, quoted by 44 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. Terrance Shelton.

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1 United States v. Terrance Shelton Anchor
ca11 · 2005
green “a district court does not err by relying on prior convictions to enhance a defendant's sentence.” 25
2 United States v. Emanuel Marseille
ca11 · 2004
green “in almendarez-torres v. united states, the supreme court held that the government need not allege in its indictment and need not prove beyond a reasonable doubt that a defendant had prior convictions for a district court to use those convictions for purposes of enhancing a sente…” 8
3 United States v. Hernandez
ca11 · 1998
green “to find harmless error, we must determine that the error did not affect the substantial rights of the parties.” 6
4 United States v. Emanuel Marseille
ca11 · 2004
green “does not take such fact-finding out of the hands of the courts.” 5

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