United States v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
48 F.3d 277 · 1995
Citation profile
23 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably United States v. Pinson (2008), United States v. Pullen (1996)
23 federal appellate ·
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. § 2113 · 18 U.S.C. § 3553 · 18 U.S.C. § 924
Relies on Hiatt v. Indiana State Student Assistance Commission · Murphy v. Sullivan · Irwin v. Department of Veterans Affairs · Youngberg v. United States · Wright 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Davis ignores the critical fact supporting his conviction on this count: that he forced Woodman [the credit union employee], at gunpoint, to go from the parking lot into the credit union. Clearly, the phrase ‘forces any persons [sic] to accompany him without ... consent’ encompasses forcing someone outside a building to enter the building. There is nothing in the text of the statute that requires that the elements of a federal kidnapping or any other crime be satisfied. The statute simply requires what it says: forced accompaniment without consent. It is an apt description for what Davis compelled Woodman to do.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he Guideline provides an enhancement for robberies where a victim is forced to accompany the defendant to another location....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“easily satisfies the Guidelines' requirement of forced accompaniment to another location.”
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.