Bivens v. Jackson

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that appellant who acted as enforcer was responsible at sentencing for all of the drugs distributed during the time he was an enforcer
• holding that defendant’s participation in uncharged acts of violence was admissible as direct proof of the conspiracy with which he was charged
• holding that the Government could exclusively rely on circumstantial evidence to support a conspiracy conviction
• expert testimony is excluded “when that testimony ventures into areas in which the jury needs no aid or illumination”
• “[a] large transaction or an accumulation of deals suggests more trust ... as well as a greater likelihood” that the parties were engaged in common enterprise
• hold- ing to the same effect on plain-error review

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).