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United States v. Slaughter

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Overruled in part
Court
Fifth Circuit
Citation
238 F.3d 580
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
70 of 70
Citing cases (total)
70
Treatment dates
2001
Overruled in part
A reviewed court has overruled part of this case’s holding. The Fifth Circuit withdrew its August 2000 opinion in United States v. Slaughter and replaced its drug-quantity conclusion on rehearing; all 70 flagged citations have been read, and the court's direct action is listed below. The court reinstated the rest of the original opinion in a published revised decision.
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Later opinions citing 238 F.3d 580 refer to that revised decision and supply no further adverse treatment of the withdrawn text. Rely on the revised opinion rather than the August 2000 version.

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70 later cases cite United States v. Slaughter; 70 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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Treatments

Overruled in part

  • The Fifth Circuit withdrew its original Slaughter opinion and deleted its final paragraph, which had rejected the drug-quantity jury-finding claim under earlier precedent.

    United States v. Slaughter · Fifth Circuit · filed

    By Order entered October 13, 2000, we granted appellant’s motion for rehearing and withdrew the original per curiam opinion. Having now considered the supplemental briefs filed by the parties, we take the following action: 1. We reinstate the entirety of the original opinion as set forth in Attachment A except for the final paragraph, which is deleted.
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