United States v. John Allan Crawley

How courts have described this case

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• noting that a passage in a prior opinion may not be entitled to binding weight when it \was not an integral part of the earlier opinion\
• noting that a passage in a prior opinion may not be entitled to binding weight when it “was not an integral part of the earlier opin- ion”
• explaining that dicta includes “any statement made by a court for use in argument, illustration, analogy or suggestion”
• stating that a court may refuse to \giv[e] weight to a passage found in a previous opinion\ when the relevant issue was neither \presented\ nor \refined by the fires of adversary presentation\
• noting that a passage in a prior opinion may not be entitled to binding weight when it “was not an integral part of the earlier opin- ion”
• stating that a court may refuse to “giv[e] weight to a passage found in a previous opinion” when the relevant issue was neither “presented” nor “refined by the fires of adversary presentation”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).