[supercat]

Compare the syllabus of U.S. v. Miller with the text of the actual decision and the power of the clerks becomes apparent, especially when at least one other court IIRC seems to have cited the syllabus to U.S. v. Miller in making its decision.

[zeugma]

You might be interested in my U.S. v. Miller link. It is the most comprehensive collection of Miller documents that I've seen. I didn't put it together, but improved it much with my HTML markup.