Mirin v. Clark County Taxicab Authority

Mirin v. Clark Cnty. Taxicab Auth., 419 U.S. 859 (1974)

Court: Supreme Court of the United States
Decided: October 15, 1974
Docket: No. 73-6790
Citations: 419 U.S. 85995 S. Ct. 10742 L. Ed. 2d 921974 U.S. LEXIS 2647

Cited by 58 7 descriptions by later courts

Opinion of the Court

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Sup. Ct. Nev. Certiorari denied.

How later courts describe this case

Explanatory parentheticals written by citing courts — 7 in all; the most informative distinct ones are shown.

("between the extremes of conceded creativity and independent effort amounting to no more than the trivial, the test of appropriation necessarily varies")

Atari, Inc. v. North Am. Philips Consumer Electronics Corp., 672 F.2d 607 (7th Cir. 1982)
(prosecutor should refrain from arguments diverting jury from their duty to decide case only on the evidence)

United States v. Berry, 627 F.2d 193 (9th Cir. 1980)
(all finding sufficient evidence on facts of a comparable weight to those in this case)

United States v. Segura-Gallegos, 41 F.3d 1266 (9th Cir. 1994)
(evidence that defendant carried a purse and shopping bag containing large quantities of heroin and handed the purse to her husband who gave the heroin to an officer sustained her conviction for possession and distribution of heroin)

United States v. Federico, 658 F.2d 1337 (9th Cir. 1981)
(no direct evidence of intent to possess and distribute heroin)

United States v. Penagos, 823 F.2d 346 (9th Cir. 1987)

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United States v. Fernando Vizcarra-Martinez66 F.3d 1006 (9th Cir. 1995)
United States v. Odell Marshall532 F.2d 1279 (9th Cir. 1976)
United States v. Frank Stearns Giese597 F.2d 1170 (9th Cir. 1979)
United States v. Jose Rafael Penagos823 F.2d 346 (9th Cir. 1987)
United States v. Habib Georges Makhlouta790 F.2d 1400 (9th Cir. 1986)
United States v. Guy W934 F.2d 1425 (9th Cir. 1991)

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State v. Thompson839 A.2d 622 (Conn. App. Ct. 2004)
Whelan v. Noelle966 F. Supp. 992 (D. Or. 1997)
United States v. Fernando Vizcarra-Martinez66 F.3d 1006 (9th Cir. 1995)
United States v. Fernando Vizcarra-Martinez57 F.3d 1506 (9th Cir. 1995)
United States v. Ernesto Segura-Gallegos41 F.3d 1266 (9th Cir. 1994)
Belcher v. Charleston Area Medical Center422 S.E.2d 827 (W. Va. 1992)

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