United States v. Skipper’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 federal appellate ·

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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(A) No person, by force, stealth, or deception, shall trespass in an occupied structure ... or in a separately secured or separately occupied portion thereof, with purpose to commit therein any theft offense, ... or any felony, when any of the following apply: (1) The offender inflicts, or attempts or threatens to inflict physical harm on another; (2) The offender has a deadly weapon or dangerous ordnance ... on or about his person or under his control; (3) The occupied structure involved is the permanent or temporary habitation of any person, in which at the time any person is present or likely to be present.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 455 F. App'x 564 - United States v. Gary Leasure

2. “[a] defendant is a career offender if (1) the defendant was at least eighteen years old at the time the defendant committed the instant offensé of conviction; (2) the instant offense of conviction is a felony that is either a crime of violence or a controlled substance offense; and (3) the defendant has at least two prior felony convictions of either a crime of violence or a controlled substance offense.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Yates