United States v. Roach’s Empirical Analysis
958 F.2d 679 · 1992
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably United States v. Thomas (1993), Houston v. Clark County Sheriff Deputy John Does 1-5 (1999)
25 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 Terry v. Ohio · Adams v. Williams · Missouri v. Continential Insurance Cos. · United States v. Hensley · Robertson v. Methow Valley Citizens Council
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“for those individuals who have had three previous convictions for a violent felony or serious drug offense.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Because appellant committed drug offenses on three different days ..., these offenses do not constitute a single criminal episode, and the district court properly enhanced appellant’s sentence pursuant to [ACCA]....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he majority of courts have concluded that if the predicate offenses occurred on occasions different from one another, Congress intended that they not be regarded as a single criminal episode.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.