United States v. Burtons’s Empirical Analysis
2017
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Collins v. Youngblood · 135 S. Ct. 2551 - Johnson v. United States · Descamps v. United States · Johnson v. United States · Welch v. United States
Most-quoted passages
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“[J]ury instructions could indicate, by referencing one alternative term to the exclusion of all others, that the statute contains a list of elements, each one of which goes toward a separate crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
How this case has been treated — in progress
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