United States v. McGavitt

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that “a lack of binding authority is often dispositive” in the plain error context
• “In this circuit, a lack of binding authority is often dispositive in the plain error context.” (quotation marks and citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

12 cases in this archive cite this case.

• United States v. Sanches
  Fifth Circuit· 2023-11-15· cited 13×
• United States v. Valas
  Fifth Circuit· 2022-07-08· cited 4×
• United States v. Wilson
  Fifth Circuit· 2024-08-01· cited 4×
• United States v. Kasali
  Fifth Circuit· 2024-08-02· cited 2×
• United States v. Jones
  Fifth Circuit· 2023-12-08
• United States v. Keller
  Fifth Circuit· 2024-12-09
• United States v. Avery
  Fifth Circuit· 2024-12-16
• United States v. Limon
  Fifth Circuit· 2025-11-13
• United States v. Jonathon Chase Vowels-Harper
  Sixth Circuit· 2025-11-25
• United States v. Rubalcava
  Fifth Circuit· 2025-12-03
• United States v. Lowe
  Fifth Circuit· 2026-01-12
• United States v. Wilson
  Fifth Circuit· 2026-01-12

Cites

17 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• United States v. Olano
  Supreme Court· 1993-04-26· cited 16,571×
• Puckett v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2009-03-25· cited 5,608×
• United States v. Terry Burton Kimbrough
  Fifth Circuit· 1995-12-28· cited 180×
• United States v. Edmundo Zuniga
  Fifth Circuit· 2013-06-20· cited 173×
• United States v. Medina-Anicacio
  Fifth Circuit· 2003-03-24· cited 132×
• Jimenez v. Wood County
  Fifth Circuit· 2011-10-13· cited 91×
• United States v. Arturo Gonzalez
  Fifth Circuit· 2015-06-23· cited 82×
• United States v. Joe Canada
  Fifth Circuit· 1997-04-07· cited 81×
• United States v. Starr
  Eighth Circuit· 2008-06-23· cited 77×
• United States v. Lyckman
  Fifth Circuit· 2000-12-07· cited 68×
• United States v. Dickson
  Fifth Circuit· 2011-01-27· cited 65×
• United States v. Bishop
  Fifth Circuit· 2010-04-07· cited 63×
• United States v. Bennie Richardson, IV
  Fifth Circuit· 2013-04-01· cited 62×
• United States v. Julian Martinez-Rodriguez
  Fifth Circuit· 2016-05-12· cited 46×
• United States v. Calvin Nesmith
  Fifth Circuit· 2017-08-08· cited 36×
• United States v. McClaren
  Fifth Circuit· 2021-09-09· cited 23×
• United States v. Bryan Pittsinger
  Fifth Circuit· 2017-10-26· cited 8×