United States v. John C. Sheffey

How courts have described this case

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

• upholding depraved-heart murder conviction for a defendant who was driving under the influence, resulting in the death of another motorist, despite the defendant's testimony “that he did not intend to hurt anybody”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• United States v. Wendell Layne
  Sixth Circuit· 1999-09-16· cited 449×
• United States v. Conatser
  Sixth Circuit· 2008-02-04· cited 415×
• United States v. Roger D. Blackwell
  Sixth Circuit· 2006-08-29· cited 248×
• Margaret Woods v. Robert Lecureux
  Sixth Circuit· 1997-04-08· cited 233×
• United States v. Michael Robert Perkins
  Fourth Circuit· 2006-11-29· cited 180×
• United States v. Gregory Wells, M.D. (98-6010) Ronald Lee Dillion (98-6011)
  Sixth Circuit· 2000-05-10· cited 142×
• Roberts v. Galen Of Virginia
  Sixth Circuit· 2003-04-09· cited 118×
• United States v. Daryl Lawrence
  Sixth Circuit· 2013-10-22· cited 102×
• Lanham v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2005-08-25· cited 101×
• United States v. Jessie Jones, Jr.
  Sixth Circuit· 1997-03-12· cited 99×
• United States v. Wood
  Tenth Circuit· 2000-03-29· cited 98×
• United States v. Thomas Michael Khalil
  Sixth Circuit· 2002-01-09· cited 91×
• Roberts v. Galen of Virginia, Inc.
  Sixth Circuit· 2003-04-09· cited 83×
• United States v. Severo Garcia-Meza
  Sixth Circuit· 2005-04-05· cited 76×
• United States v. Young
  Sixth Circuit· 2009-01-30· cited 62×
• Latana Slayton v. Ohio Department of Youth Services
  Sixth Circuit· 2000-03-14· cited 57×
• United States v. Robinson
  Sixth Circuit· 2008-11-24· cited 56×
• United States v. Randly Begay
  Ninth Circuit· 2022-05-05· cited 55×
• United States v. Ronda Nixon
  Sixth Circuit· 2012-09-11· cited 42×
• United States v. Joshua Grant
  Sixth Circuit· 2021-10-01· cited 24×

Cites

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

• United States v. Olano
  Supreme Court· 1993-04-26· cited 16,571×
• Stevenson v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1896-04-13· cited 349×
• United States v. Gordon Pennell
  Sixth Circuit· 1984-07-31· cited 313×
• David Foster and Catherine Foster v. Sigmund Barilow and Margaret Barilow
  Sixth Circuit· 1993-10-01· cited 309×
• United States v. Kevin Eugene Wright
  Sixth Circuit· 1994-02-14· cited 237×
• McCandless v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1936-05-18· cited 200×
• United States v. Clarence Evans
  Sixth Circuit· 1989-08-25· cited 163×
• Torres v. County of Oakland
  Sixth Circuit· 1985-03-19· cited 149×
• Government of the Virgin Islands v. Henry D. Knight
  Third Circuit· 1993-04-08· cited 140×
• Robert Lee Norris v. Henry Risley, Warden
  Ninth Circuit· 1990-11-08· cited 106×
• United States v. Salvatore T. \Sam\ Busacca
  Sixth Circuit· 1988-12-06· cited 94×
• United States v. Steven Lynn Griffith
  Sixth Circuit· 1994-02-28· cited 90×
• United States v. David Earl Fleming
  Fourth Circuit· 1984-08-31· cited 89×
• United States v. Roy Lee Clark
  Sixth Circuit· 1993-03-10· cited 80×
• United States v. Scott Robin Roston
  Ninth Circuit· 1993-02-26· cited 77×
• United States v. Michael D. Milton
  Sixth Circuit· 1994-07-18· cited 70×
• McGowan v. Cooper Industries, Inc.
  Sixth Circuit· 1988-12-20· cited 63×
• United States v. William M. Dixon
  D.C. Circuit· 1969-03-27· cited 61×
• United States v. Anthony Darrell Lesina
  Ninth Circuit· 1987-11-27· cited 56×
• United States v. Dennis Lloyd Pardee
  Fourth Circuit· 1966-11-02· cited 49×