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