Quarles v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
2019
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 924
Relies on Taylor v. United States · Shepard v. United States · United States v. Detroit Timber & Lumber Co. · James v. United States · Descamps 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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the categorical approach employed today is difficult to apply and can yield dramatically different sentences depending on where a [crime] occurred”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“demonstrates the absurdity of applying the categorical approach to the enumerated-offenses clause.”
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.