Caron v. United States

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “The rule of lenity is not invoked by a grammatical possibility. It does not apply if the ambiguous reading relied on is an implausible reading of the congressional purpose.”
• the rule is “not invoked by a grammatical possibility”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

131 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Begay v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2008-04-16· cited 1,437×
• Johnson v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2000-05-15· cited 941×
• Lopez v. Davis
  Supreme Court· 2001-01-10· cited 532×
• Dolan v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2010-06-14· cited 506×
• Abbott v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2010-11-15· cited 364×
• United States v. Daugherty
  Fifth Circuit· 2001-08-28· cited 357×
• Aaron M. Deroo v. United States
  Eighth Circuit· 2000-08-31· cited 250×
• Shular v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2020-02-26· cited 207×
• Logan v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2007-12-04· cited 164×
• United States v. Schmitt Degasso
  Tenth Circuit· 2004-05-12· cited 132×
• United States v. Winston C. Graham A/K/A Vincent Graham, A/K/A Michael Diamond A/K/A Tyrone L. Simmons, Winston C. Graham
  Third Circuit· 1999-03-05· cited 116×
• David O'DOnalD v. Tracy Johns, Warden
  Third Circuit· 2005-03-22· cited 111×
• United States v. Snyder
  First Circuit· 2000-12-21· cited 104×
• State v. Liberty
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 2012-05-29· cited 94×
• Buchmeier v. United States
  Seventh Circuit· 2009-09-10· cited 86×
• United States v. Villanueva-Sotelo
  D.C. Circuit· 2008-02-15· cited 82×
• United States v. Larry Arthur Ormsby
  Sixth Circuit· 2001-06-04· cited 69×
• United States v. Bobby Marvin Collins
  Eighth Circuit· 2003-03-03· cited 54×
• United States v. Tracey Allen Campbell
  Sixth Circuit· 2001-05-14· cited 53×
• Coram v. State of Illinois
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2013-11-13· cited 52×

Cites

17 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• United States v. Shabani
  Supreme Court· 1994-11-01· cited 687×
• Ladner v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1958-12-15· cited 631×
• Dickerson v. New Banner Institute, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1983-02-23· cited 595×
• Beecham v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1994-05-16· cited 273×
• United States v. Calvin Cassidy
  Sixth Circuit· 1990-03-30· cited 167×
• United States v. Ronald Driscoll
  Sixth Circuit· 1992-09-02· cited 118×
• United States v. Richard R. Glaser
  Seventh Circuit· 1994-01-26· cited 110×
• United States v. Michael Lee Dahms
  Ninth Circuit· 1991-07-02· cited 101×
• United States v. Tommy Franklin Essick
  Fourth Circuit· 1991-06-03· cited 81×
• United States v. Gerald R. Caron
  First Circuit· 1996-02-26· cited 68×
• James McGrath v. United States
  Second Circuit· 1995-08-01· cited 65×
• United States v. Estrella
  First Circuit· 1997-01-09· cited 64×
• United States v. Walter Clinton Hall
  Tenth Circuit· 1994-03-22· cited 42×
• United States v. Qualls
  Ninth Circuit· 1998-04-02· cited 16×
• United States v. Randall Dwight Shoemaker, United States of America v. Larry Johnson Norman
  Fourth Circuit· 1993-08-05· cited 11×
• United States v. Caron
  D. Massachusetts· 1996-09-12· cited 11×
• Commonwealth v. Landry
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1978-05-31· cited 8×

Other cases named Caron v. United States

9 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• Caron v. United States
  D. Rhode Island· 1976-02-09· cited 6×
• Caron v. United States
  D. Massachusetts· 2001-10-31· cited 3×
• Caron v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1998-01-09· cited 1×
• Caron v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2004-04-26
• Caron v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1996-06-24
• Caron v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1996-06-24
• Caron v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2004-04-26
• Caron v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2004-04-26
• Caron v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1984-03-19