Welch v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
2016
Citation profile
358 federal appellate · 111 district · 62 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 28 U.S.C. § 2253 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Slack v. McDaniel · Miller-El v. Cockrell Director Texas Department of Criminal Justice Institutional Division · Teague v. Lane · Ring v. Arizona · Bailey v. United States
Cited together with 135 S. Ct. 2551 - Johnson v. United States · Teague v. Lane · Taylor v. United States · United States v. Booker · Shepard 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 1,000 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(A) has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person or property of another, or (B) that by its nature, involves a substantial risk that physical force against the person or property of another may be used in the course of committing the offense.”
93 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the rule announced in Johnson is substantive. By striking down the residual clause as void for vagueness, Johnson changed the substantive reach of the Armed Career Criminal Act, altering 'the range of conduct or the class of persons that the [Act] punishes.' " Id. at 1265 (quoting Schriro , 542 U.S. at 353 , 124 S.Ct. 2519 ). 14 Second , "watershed rules of criminal procedure implicating the fundamental fairness and accuracy of the criminal proceeding”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“otherwise involves conduct that presents a serious potential risk of physical injury to another.”
15 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.