United States v. Michael Fish’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently January 2016 · most notably United States v. Johnson (1994), United States v. Kaplansky (1994)
44 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
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. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 924
Relies on Taylor v. United States · Rosales-Lopez v. United States · Scarborough v. United States · United States v. Lane · United States v. Blount
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Armed bank robbery is unquestionably a crime of violence, because it 'has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person ... of another.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(App. 104-05.) If, as a panel of this court has previously found, the attempted breaking and entering of a business place is a crime of violence under the”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“inquiring into a juror's attitude toward conduct that is criminalized would not assist in selecting an impartial jury.”
2 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.