Middleton v. Murphy, Warden

How courts have described this case

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

• rights “reinstated automatically by operation of law ... are no less ‘restored’ than are such rights that have been resurrected by an ‘affirmative act of the state’ ”
• suspect's nonconiplianee with order to get to ground justified handcuffing and frisk for weapons
• hold ing that Texas’ failure to deny a non-violent felon the right to possess firearms is not the “functional equivalent” of restoring her civil rights within the meaning of 18 U.S.C. § 921(a)(20)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Rhodes v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1997-04-30· cited 471×
• Washington v. Lambert
  Ninth Circuit· 1996-10-28· cited 225×
• United States v. Damon Keith Fisher
  Tenth Circuit· 1994-10-28· cited 194×
• Kornahrens v. Evatt
  Fourth Circuit· 1995-10-03· cited 167×
• United States v. Rich
  Fifth Circuit· 1998-05-14· cited 110×
• Allen v. City of Los Angeles
  Ninth Circuit· 1995-09-25· cited 107×
• Duncan Peder McKenzie Jr. v. Rick Day, Director, Department of Corrections and Human Services
  Ninth Circuit· 1995-05-08· cited 71×
• McArthur Jones, Claimant-Appellant, and Martin M. Karnas, Claimant-Appellant v. Jesse Brown, Secretary of Veterans Affairs
  Federal Circuit· 1994-11-29· cited 67×
• United States v. Jackson
  Eleventh Circuit· 1995-07-07· cited 66×
• James McGrath v. United States
  Second Circuit· 1995-08-01· cited 65×
• United States v. Indelicato
  First Circuit· 1996-10-15· cited 54×
• United States v. Walter Clinton Hall
  Tenth Circuit· 1994-03-22· cited 42×
• Raul Rodriguez v. Gary L. Johnson, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division
  Fifth Circuit· 1997-02-19· cited 39×
• United States v. Michael J. McKinley
  Seventh Circuit· 1994-04-27· cited 34×
• Harris v. Champion
  Tenth Circuit· 1995-02-21· cited 33×
• United States v. Gary August Dupaquier
  Fifth Circuit· 1996-01-26· cited 32×
• Wilkerson v. Whitley
  Fifth Circuit· 1994-08-12· cited 32×
• United States v. Charles Gene Maines
  Tenth Circuit· 1994-04-05· cited 28×
• Bates v. Whitley
  Fifth Circuit· 1994-05-03· cited 25×
• Alfredo Lugo v. John P. Keane
  Second Circuit· 1994-01-25· cited 25×