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762 F.3d 641 · 2014

Citation profile

10
cited by 10 later decisions
April 2025
most recently cited

1 federal appellate ·

Relationships

Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3582 · 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act)

Relies on Giglio v. United States · United States v. Healy · United States v. Ibarra · United States v. Cook · United States v. Phillips

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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “reconsideration motions are accepted as a common-law practice” in criminal cases,”
    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.