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United States v. Castleman’s Empirical Analysis

572 U.S. 157 · 2014

Citation profile

156
cited by 156 later decisions
9
cited 9 times by the Supreme Court
7
states following
May 2025
most recently cited

35 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 state decisions

Appellate journey

reviewedthe decision below (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)

Relationships

Applies 18 U.S.C. § 16 · 18 U.S.C. § 2261 (§ 40221 of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994) · 18 U.S.C. § 921 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 25 U.S.C. § 1304 (Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968) · 42 U.S.C. § 13925 (§ 40002 of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994) · 8 U.S.C. § 1227 (§ 237 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))

Relies on Taylor v. United States · Shepard v. United States · Begay v. United States · Custis v. United States · Leocal v. Ashcroft

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

  1. “as used in the provision at issue here means no more nor less than force capable of causing physical pain or injury to a person or injury to property. See § 924(c)(3) (defining”
    7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
  2. “the knowing or intentional causation of bodily injury necessarily involves the use of physical force.”
    7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
  3. “any crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year ... that-(i) has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person of another.”
    4 later decisions 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.