United States v. Selfa’s Empirical Analysis
918 F.2d 749 · 1990
Citation profile
66 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 109 later decisions — most recently April 2020 · most notably United States v. Chapnick (1992), United States v. Robinson (1992)
66 federal appellate · 6 district ·
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. § 2113 · 18 U.S.C. § 371
Relies on Nicholas v. United States · Coastal Steel Corp. v. Wheelabrator-Frye, Inc. · Crisp v. Rubin · Waller v. Georgia · United States v. Sherbondy
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 109 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any offense under federal or state law punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year that ... has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person of another.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“was at least eighteen years old at the time of the instant offense, ... the instant offense of conviction is a felony that is ... a crime of violence ..., and ... [he] has at least two prior felony convictions of ... a crime of violence.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the elements of the crimes of which the defendant was previously convicted, and not the particular conduct of the defendant on the day the crimes were committed, should control”
4 later decisions 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.