United States v. Curry

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that defendant’s prior Louisiana convictions for cocaine distribution and for possessing marijuana were valid predicate offenses under § 851
• concluding that “the dis- trict court need only verify that the previous convictions were (1) felonies and (2) drug offenses”
• noting that the definition of \felony drug offense\ covers offenses involving the mere possession of controlled substances, while the definition of \serious drug offense\ does not

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

9 cases in this archive cite this case.

• LeeAnn Brock v. United States
  Seventh Circuit· 2018-04-03· cited 47×
• United States v. Rosales
  Ninth Circuit· 2008-02-13· cited 30×
• United States v. Rains
  Fifth Circuit· 2010-08-23· cited 19×
• United States v. James Randy Nelson
  Fourth Circuit· 2007-04-19· cited 18×
• United States v. Brown
  Eighth Circuit· 2010-03-25· cited 15×
• United States v. Flores-Fernandez
  S.D. Texas· 2006-02-27· cited 4×
• Curry v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2005-05-31
• United States v. Nelson
  Fourth Circuit· 2007-04-19
• United States v. Dennis Brown
  Eighth Circuit· 2010-03-25

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• United States v. Booker
  Supreme Court· 2004-10-01· cited 23,210×
• Shepard v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2005-03-07· cited 4,574×
• Moskal v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1990-12-03· cited 742×
• United States v. James H. Spikes (96-3899) Marilyn Smith (96-3660)
  Sixth Circuit· 1998-09-02· cited 285×
• United States v. Fernandez
  Ninth Circuit· 2004-10-27· cited 242×
• United States v. Johnny Lee Hansley, A/K/A Johnnie Lee Hansley, Glenn Hansley, Ray Bennett, Bobby Riley, Earl Jackson
  Eleventh Circuit· 1995-07-27· cited 85×
• United States v. Keith Maynie, Jr., United States of America v. Dietrick Lavon Banks, United States of America v. Lenora Logan
  Eighth Circuit· 2001-07-30· cited 82×
• United States v. Mankins
  Fifth Circuit· 1998-02-18· cited 32×
• United States v. Sandle
  Fifth Circuit· 1997-09-18· cited 22×
• State v. Converse
  Louisiana Court of Appeal· 1988-06-21· cited 20×
• United States v. James P. Pazzanese
  Eighth Circuit· 1992-12-07· cited 17×
• State v. McMillan
  Louisiana Court of Appeal· 2002-06-12· cited 7×