Bennett v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
868 F.3d 1 · 2017
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 16 · 18 U.S.C. § 3582 · 18 U.S.C. § 921 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 18 U.S.C. § 931 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 8 U.S.C. § 1101 (§ 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Begay v. United States · Leocal v. Ashcroft · 135 S. Ct. 2551 - Johnson v. United States · Descamps v. United States · Johnson 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]o satisfy the force clause under the categorical approach, the use, attempted use, or threatened use of violent force must be an element of the prior offense.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]t may seem anomalous that an offense bearing the name 'aggravated assault' could escape ACCA's reach.... But Congress instructed us to take our cues from an offense's elements rather than from either its label or the underlying means by which that offense was carried out in a particular case.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“whether Congress intended the phrase 'use ... of physical force against the person of another' in ACCA's definition of a 'violent felony' to include or exclude reckless aggravated assault as Maine defines it.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.