Burrell v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
384 F.3d 22 · 2004
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Ballard v. Burton (2006), United States v. Savage (2008)
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 921 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 8 U.S.C. § 1101 (§ 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1227 (§ 237 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Apprendi v. New Jersey · Blakely v. Washington · North Carolina v. Alford · Teague v. Lane · Bousley v. United States
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he determinate factor is defendant's criminal record at the time of the charged possession.... Thus, a § 922(g)(1) conviction is `not subject to attack on the ground that a predicate conviction is subsequently reversed, vacated or modified.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] defendant entering an Alford plea “voluntarily, knowingly, and understandingly consents] to the imposition of a prison sentence even [though] he is unwilling or unable to admit his participation in the acts constituting the crime.” Frequently analogized to a plea of nolo contendere, an Alford plea often asserts innocence whereas a nolo conten-dere plea refuses to admit guilt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Accordingly, while we recognize that Connecticut courts place some limitations on the use of Alford and nolo contendere pleas as admissions of charged criminal conduct, we reject [the] argument that this somehow renders the judgments entered after sentence on such pleas something less than `convictions' under Connecticut law. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.