Stokeling v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
2019
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 173 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2025 · most notably Jones v. Calvert Group, Ltd. (2009), Shular v. United States (2020)
41 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 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 Taylor v. United States · Russello v. United States · Reiter v. Sonotone Corp. · Begay v. United States · United States v. Detroit Timber & Lumber Co.
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 173 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“attempted use, or threatened use of physical force.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“violent force-that is, force capable of causing physical pain or injury to another person.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“encompasses robbery offenses that require the criminal to overcome the victim's resistance.”
11 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.