Hylton v. Sessions’s Empirical Analysis
897 F.3d 57 · 2018
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 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)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1227 (§ 237 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1252 (§ 242 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Kolender v. Lawson · Food & Drug Administration v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. · Gonzales v. Duenas-Alvarez · Descamps v. United States · Lopez v. Gonzales
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[b]y demanding that Hylton produce old state cases to illustrate what the statute makes punishable by its text, the Government's argument misses the point of the categorical approach and wrenches the Supreme Court's language in Duenas Alvarez from its context”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he elements of Mathis's crime of conviction ... cover a greater swath of conduct than the elements of the relevant [federal] offense .... Under our precedents, that undisputed disparity resolves this case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Matthews v. Barr“[T]he statutory language itself ... creates the realistic probability that a state would apply the statute to conduct beyond the generic definition.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Matthews v. Barr
How this case has been treated — in progress
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