United States v. Gordon’s Empirical Analysis
64 F.3d 281 · 1995
Citation profile
18 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently February 2012 · most notably United States v. Wright (2000), United States v. Molina (1997)
18 federal appellate ·
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
Relies on Boykin v. Alabama · Griffin v. Oceanic Contractors, Inc. · Boatmen's National Bank of St. Louis v. Carver · Air Line Pilots Ass'n v. Landry · Weissbrodt v. White Mountain Apache Tribe of Arizona
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“contain an element of specific volition, an actual intent or desire that one's actions create the specific result,” id. at 283 , and the Court could not find that defendant desired the guard to shoot him. We note that other courts have questioned Gordon’s”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“because Gordon struggled with the security guard after being told to stop struggling or be shot, Gordon 'induced . . . or willfully caused' the discharge of a firearm.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“This reflects a policy that defendants who receive the benefit of a rehabilitative sentence and continue to commit crimes should not be treated with further leniency.”
2 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.