United States v. Light’s Empirical Analysis
406 F.3d 995 · 2005
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently January 2024
16 federal appellate · 2 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.
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 924
Relies on United States v. Booker · United States v. Olano · Faretta v. California · Johnson v. United States · United States v. Rodriguez
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the instant case, [the defendant] asked the district court, `What's the rule on representing yourself?' Because [the defendant] only asked the district court for information about `the rule' on self-representation and manifested no intention to actually represent himself, this is an . . . equivocal statement. . . . [T]he right to self-representation could not have been denied improperly because [the defendant] did not clearly and unequivocally invoke it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) error, (2) that is plain, and (3) that affects substantial rights. If all three conditions are met, an appellate court may then exercise its discretion to notice a forfeited error, but only if (4) the error seriously affects the fairness, integrity, or public reputation of judicial proceedings.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a reasonable probability that he would have received a more favorable sentence with the Booker error eliminated by making the Guidelines advisory.”
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.