United States v. Benabe

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that “sovereign citizens” raise theories “of individual sovereignty, immunity from prosecution, and their ilk”
• describing the conduct of another “sovereign citizen” and collecting cases rejecting the group’s claims as frivolous
• “We have repeatedly rejected 14 . . . theories of individual sovereignty, immunity from prosecution, and their ilk.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• United States v. Ronn Darnell Sterling
  Eleventh Circuit· 2013-11-21· cited 220×
• Fernando Delatorre v. United States
  Seventh Circuit· 2017-02-03· cited 183×
• United States v. James Dinkins
  Fourth Circuit· 2012-08-14· cited 113×
• Christopher Cantu v. City of Dothan, Alabama
  Eleventh Circuit· 2020-09-03· cited 97×
• John Jones Bey v. State of Indiana
  Seventh Circuit· 2017-02-03· cited 91×
• Commonwealth v. McGarry
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-10-13· cited 91×
• United States v. Anthony Volpendesto
  Seventh Circuit· 2014-03-24· cited 77×
• United States v. Morales
  Seventh Circuit· 2011-08-18· cited 73×
• United States v. Airiz Coleman
  Sixth Circuit· 2017-09-13· cited 71×
• Jones v. Murphy
  Second Circuit· 2012-08-29· cited 70×
• United States v. Terrance P. Daniels
  Seventh Circuit· 2015-09-30· cited 52×
• United States v. Lamar E. Sanders
  Seventh Circuit· 2013-02-28· cited 44×
• United States v. Jesus Tello
  Seventh Circuit· 2012-07-18· cited 42×
• United States v. Hill
  Fifth Circuit· 2023-03-22· cited 33×
• United States v. Schiro
  Seventh Circuit· 2012-05-01· cited 29×
• United States v. Donte Taylor
  Third Circuit· 2021-12-21· cited 27×
• Lewis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2016-01-07· cited 26×
• United States v. Kokenis
  Seventh Circuit· 2011-11-23· cited 22×
• Kostovetsky v. Ambit Energy Holdings, LLC
  N.D. Illinois· 2017-03-10· cited 19×
• United States v. Juan Briseno
  Seventh Circuit· 2016-12-02· cited 15×

Cites

71 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Apprendi v. New Jersey
  Supreme Court· 2000-06-26· cited 28,372×
• Chapman v. California
  Supreme Court· 1967-03-27· cited 23,069×
• Faretta v. California
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-30· cited 11,585×
• Gideon v. Wainwright
  Supreme Court· 1963-03-18· cited 8,419×
• Arizona v. Fulminante
  Supreme Court· 1991-05-20· cited 6,060×
• Smith v. Phillips
  Supreme Court· 1982-02-22· cited 3,512×
• Sullivan v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 1993-06-01· cited 3,512×
• Illinois v. Allen
  Supreme Court· 1970-04-06· cited 3,248×
• Pinkerton v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1946-10-14· cited 3,200×
• Snyder v. Massachusetts
  Supreme Court· 1934-01-08· cited 2,822×
• Tumey v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1927-03-14· cited 2,714×
• Rose v. Clark
  Supreme Court· 1986-07-02· cited 2,431×
• McKaskle v. Wiggins
  Supreme Court· 1984-01-23· cited 2,288×
• Waller v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1984-05-21· cited 2,166×
• United States v. Gonzalez-Lopez
  Supreme Court· 2006-06-26· cited 1,863×
• Vasquez v. Hillery
  Supreme Court· 1986-01-14· cited 1,638×
• Kentucky v. Stincer
  Supreme Court· 1987-06-19· cited 1,461×
• McDonough Power Equipment, Inc. v. Greenwood
  Supreme Court· 1984-01-18· cited 1,407×
• Salinas v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1997-12-02· cited 1,039×
• Diaz v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1912-02-19· cited 1,035×