United States v. Fields’s Empirical Analysis
863 F.3d 1012 · 2017
Citation profile
8 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently January 2024
8 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 921 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 994
Relies on Begay v. United States · Voisine v. United States · United States v. Rice · United States v. Ossana · United States v. Fogg
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'crime of violence' means any offense under federal or state law”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A person commits the crime of assault in the second degree if he ... [r]ecklessly causes serious physical injury to another person....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“elements of the offense as defined in the statute of conviction rather than to the facts underlying [the] prior conviction.”
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.