United States v. Leonard D. Singleton

How courts have described this case

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

• “[C]ommon sense dictates that if a previously convicted felon is attacked by someone with a gun, the felon should not be found guilty for taking the gun away from the attacker in order to save his life.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• United States v. Deleveaux
  Eleventh Circuit· 2000-03-09· cited 172×
• Bryan Range v. Attorney General United States
  Third Circuit· 2023-06-06· cited 161×
• United States v. Charles Odell Perrin
  Fourth Circuit· 1995-01-31· cited 140×
• United States v. Calvin B. Murphy
  Sixth Circuit· 1997-03-04· cited 132×
• United States v. Harold M. Newcomb
  Sixth Circuit· 1993-10-07· cited 127×
• United States v. Anthony Dejohn (02-3158) Christopher Harb (02-3175)
  Sixth Circuit· 2004-05-13· cited 111×
• United States v. Anthony J. Paolello Anthony J. Paolello
  Third Circuit· 1991-12-04· cited 96×
• United States v. Wesley Hargrove
  Sixth Circuit· 2005-07-19· cited 89×
• Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lewis
  Third Circuit· 2010-09-08· cited 88×
• United States v. Walter M. Wolak, Jr.
  Sixth Circuit· 1991-01-18· cited 72×
• United States v. Tamara Milligan (92-6654) Benny Milligan (92-6655) James McElveen (92-6666)
  Sixth Circuit· 1994-03-31· cited 61×
• United States v. Leonard P. Riffe
  Sixth Circuit· 1994-07-06· cited 56×
• UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Steven Paul GOMEZ, Defendant-Appellant
  Ninth Circuit· 1996-07-26· cited 55×
• United States v. Joseph Smith
  First Circuit· 1993-01-05· cited 52×
• United States v. White
  Second Circuit· 2009-01-09· cited 47×
• United States v. Richard Dale Talbott
  Seventh Circuit· 1996-03-08· cited 46×
• United States v. William v. Toney
  Seventh Circuit· 1994-06-24· cited 45×
• State v. Baca
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1992-08-31· cited 45×
• United States v. Don Brown
  Sixth Circuit· 2004-05-06· cited 44×
• United States v. Ernest Vereen, Jr.
  Eleventh Circuit· 2019-04-05· cited 43×

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• United States v. Bailey
  Supreme Court· 1980-01-21· cited 1,333×
• Scarborough v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-06· cited 579×
• United States v. James P. Craven
  Sixth Circuit· 1973-05-08· cited 308×
• Barrett v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1976-01-13· cited 306×
• United States v. Edgar Cherry Gant
  Fifth Circuit· 1982-11-09· cited 113×
• United States v. Agnel Jones
  Sixth Circuit· 1976-05-07· cited 106×
• Calhoun v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1981-02-23· cited 53×
• United States v. Clifford Bailey, United States of America v. Ronald Clifton Cooley, United States of America v. Ralph Walker
  D.C. Circuit· 1978-10-19· cited 47×
• United States v. Henry Agard
  Second Circuit· 1979-09-17· cited 47×
• Browder v. Director, Department of Corrections
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-13· cited 42×
• United States v. Horace Eldin Lewis
  Tenth Circuit· 1980-08-22· cited 32×
• United States v. Ronald Stover
  Eighth Circuit· 1987-08-17· cited 32×
• United States v. Esther Cassidy, John Schuchardt
  Fourth Circuit· 1979-11-01· cited 30×