A court of appeals may also pose questions to the Supreme Court for a ruling in the midst of reviewing a case. This procedure was formerly used somewhat commonly, but now it is quite rare. For example, while between 1937 and 1946 twenty 'certificate' cases were accepted, since 1947 the Supreme Court has accepted only four. The Second Circuit, sitting "en banc", attempted to use this procedure in the case "United States v. Penaranda", 375 F.3d 238 (2d Cir. 2004), as a result of the Supreme Court's decision in "Blakely v. Washington", but the Supreme Court dismissed the question. "See" "United States v. Penaranda", 543 U.S. 1117 (2005). The last instance of the Supreme Court accepting a set of questions and answering them was in 1982's "City of Mesquite v. Aladdin's Castle, Inc", 455 US 283 (1982).