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· 11/15/1943

Cittadini v. Commissioner

Citations

  • 139 F.2d 29
  • 31 A.F.T.R. (P-H) 978
  • 1943 U.S. App. LEXIS 2186

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that a police officer was not entitled to the “professional courtesy” of having his fellow police officers look the other way or otherwise work on his behalf to mitigate criminal charges
  • noting that reviewing court cannot itself “assess the weight of conflicting evidence, pass on the credibility of witnesses, or substitute [its] judgment for that of the jury”
  • “The Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is ‘essentially a direction that all persons similarly situated should be treated alike.’” (quoting City of Cleburne v. Cleburne Living Ctr. Inc., 473 U.S. 432, 439 (1985))
  • defining “blue wall of silence”

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Judges: Dobie, Northcott, Parker

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