Michael Knight 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.

• vacating a § 924(c) conviction for using a firearm during a kidnapping under Davis
• vacating a § 924(c) conviction for using a firearm during a kidnapping under Davis
• rejecting defendant’s argument that assault can result from a mere offensive touching, and thus without requisite physical force, as “ignor[ing] the additional element that the defendant put the postal employee’s life in danger by use of a dangerous weapon”
• “[W]e conclude that the statute sets out a separate aggravated offense.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• United States v. Terron Bryant
  Fourth Circuit· 2020-01-24· cited 64×
• USA V.tony Buck
  Ninth Circuit· 2022-01-11· cited 21×
• In Re: Orlando Hall
  Fifth Circuit· 2020-10-30· cited 18×
• United States v. Castro
  Fifth Circuit· 2022-03-17· cited 13×
• Pannell v. United States
  Second Circuit· 2024-08-28· cited 3×
• United States v. Castro
  Fifth Circuit· 2021-07-14· cited 2×
• Rojas-Tapia v. United States
  First Circuit· 2025-03-03· cited 2×
• United States v. Clark
  District of Columbia· 2024-09-23

Cites

19 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Johnson v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2015-06-26· cited 5,137×
• Mathis v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2016-06-23· cited 2,769×
• United States v. Davis
  Supreme Court· 2019-06-24· cited 2,472×
• Johnson v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2010-03-02· cited 1,738×
• Stokeling v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2019-01-15· cited 348×
• United States v. Gooch
  Sixth Circuit· 2017-03-02· cited 112×
• United States v. Rejon Taylor
  Sixth Circuit· 2016-02-11· cited 106×
• United States v. Demario Denson
  Sixth Circuit· 2013-08-29· cited 78×
• United States v. Rede-Mendez
  Sixth Circuit· 2012-05-21· cited 68×
• United States v. Eric Verwiebe
  Sixth Circuit· 2017-10-20· cited 66×
• United States v. James Everett Perry
  Sixth Circuit· 1993-04-06· cited 64×
• United States v. George Rafidi
  Sixth Circuit· 2016-07-11· cited 62×
• United States v. Kennth Jackson
  Sixth Circuit· 2019-03-12· cited 61×
• United States v. Dennis Rodriguez
  Seventh Circuit· 1991-02-22· cited 56×
• United States v. Oscar Harris
  Sixth Circuit· 2017-04-04· cited 38×
• United States v. Delis
  Second Circuit· 2009-03-05· cited 30×
• David L. Hyatt v. United States
  Sixth Circuit· 2000-03-27· cited 29×
• United States v. Deandre Enoch
  Seventh Circuit· 2017-07-28· cited 29×
• IN RE: Sheldon Dean Christopher Watt
  Eleventh Circuit· 2016-07-21· cited 23×