United States v. Becker’s Empirical Analysis
919 F.2d 568 · 1990
Citation profile
111 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 151 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2018 · most notably Sessions v. Dimaya (2018), United States v. Innie (1993)
111 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. § 16 · 18 U.S.C. § 2113 · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 28 U.S.C. § 994
Relies on Taylor v. United States · Thomas v. Southtrust Bank of Alabama · Youngberg v. United States · United States v. Sherbondy · People v. Pendleton
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 151 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A defendant is a career offender if (1) the defendant was at least eighteen years old at the time of the instant offense, (2) the instant offense of conviction is a felony that is either a crime of violence or a controlled substance offense, and (3) the defendant has at least two prior felony convictions of either a crime of violence or a controlled substance offense.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(i) has an an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person of another, or (ii) is burglary ..., arson, or extortion, involves use of explosives, or otherwise involves conduct that presents a serious potential risk of physical injury to another.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“conduct that presents a serious potential risk of physical injury to another.”
8 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.