Supreme Court of the United States · 1994-11-01
Case and law context
Role: rule-announced; posture: Supreme Court review of whether §846 requires an overt act; result: remanded; claim:
Instances and excluded annotation blocks
| Case | Element | Holding and scope | Variant | Exact source quotations |
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| /us/513/0010-01 — Supreme Court of the United States · 1994 | Agreement of two or more persons to the unlawful object | not_reached Excluded from merits counts rule-announced / meritsThe Court announces the no-overt-act rule; it does not decide a defendant-specific sufficiency finding here. | Unspecified variant | In order to establish a violation of 21 U. S. C. § 846, the Government need not prove the commission of any overt acts in furtherance of the conspiracy.Source: docroot/ir/caselaw/us_513.jsonl#/us/513/0010-01; Unicode character offsets [8339:8491] (end exclusive); SHA-256 2fe5b9464462aba9e77428cdf532f373f7dcacf88d555503969ee67f6700475b. |
| /us/513/0010-01 — Supreme Court of the United States · 1994 | Knowing and voluntary participation in the agreement | not_reached Excluded from merits counts rule-announced / merits | Unspecified variant | No source quotation recorded for this block. |
| /us/513/0010-01 — Supreme Court of the United States · 1994 | Knowledge of the unlawful agreement and objective | not_reached Excluded from merits counts rule-announced / merits | Unspecified variant | No source quotation recorded for this block. |
| /us/513/0010-01 — Supreme Court of the United States · 1994 | Identified offense in Subchapter I | not_reached Excluded from merits counts rule-announced / merits | Unspecified variant | No source quotation recorded for this block. |
Court interpretations recorded from this case
interpretation
In order to establish a violation of 21 U. S. C. § 846, the Government need not prove the commission of any overt acts in furtherance of the conspiracy.
/us/513/0010-01 — Supreme Court of the United States · 1994
In order to establish a violation of 21 U. S. C. § 846, the Government need not prove the commission of any overt acts in furtherance of the conspiracy.Source:
docroot/ir/caselaw/us_513.jsonl#/us/513/0010-01; Unicode character offsets [8339:8491] (end exclusive); SHA-256 2fe5b9464462aba9e77428cdf532f373f7dcacf88d555503969ee67f6700475b.A buyer-seller transaction alone does not establish agreement to a further distribution conspiracy. Repetition/quantity and coordinated dealings can support the inference; no mechanical transaction-count rule is asserted.