John Eugene Kniess v. United States

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that “phrases employed by one legislative draftsman are an unreliable clue as to that which another writer, at a different point in time, . . . may have intended by the use of slightly different terms”
• tracing the history of several congressional enactments indicated intent that narrow statute precluded application of more general statute with respect to particular criminal activity at issue in that case

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).