Public-domain · open source
OpenJurist

uses a firearm

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 508 U.S. 223 - Smith v. United States · 1993Most cited · 2,861 citing opinions

such extraordinary employments.

How often courts cite the case defining “uses a firearm”

196019802000202020301.0k

Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “uses a firearm” — 2,847 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.

All 2 definitions, chronological · 1993–1993

  1. 1993·508 U.S. 223 - Smith v. United States[fn3]· cited 2,861×

    uses for "any" purpose," only that it means "uses as a weapon or for trade." See "ante," at ____.