United States v. Mooney

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that an attorney performed deficiently when he advised a defendant to plead guilty but, because of a failure to conduct reasonable legal research, did not advise the defendant of a plausible affirmative defense
• construing the affirmative justification defense very narrowly when it comes to felon in possession of firearm cases
• emphasizing * Lewis’ cousin was killed in the altercation. 3 that “we . . . construe the justification defense for possession of a firearm by a felon very narrowly” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• finding the justification defense to be potentially available 5 where the defendant took the weapon from a third party with known violent tendencies who 6 allegedly put a loaded firearm to the defendant’s head
• found a justification defense exists under predecessor statute to 18 U.S.C. § 922

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• United States v. Nicholson
  Fourth Circuit· 2010-07-12· cited 98×
• Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lewis
  Third Circuit· 2010-09-08· cited 88×
• United States v. White
  Second Circuit· 2009-01-09· cited 47×
• United States v. Ricks
  Fourth Circuit· 2009-07-20· cited 26×
• Mooney v. Frazier
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2010-04-01· cited 19×
• United States v. Gore
  Fourth Circuit· 2010-01-12· cited 18×
• United States v. Alston
  Third Circuit· 2008-05-20· cited 18×
• United States v. Jafari Moore
  Sixth Circuit· 2013-10-23· cited 6×
• Gilliard v. Gruenberg
  District of Columbia· 2018-03-26
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  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2023-11-16
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  Fourth Circuit· 2025-08-14
• United States v. Pablo Velasco Barrera
  Fourth Circuit· 2025-08-14
• United States v. Henry Martinez
  Fourth Circuit· 2025-08-14
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Cites

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

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Hill v. Lockhart
  Supreme Court· 1985-11-18· cited 11,299×
• McMann v. Richardson
  Supreme Court· 1970-05-04· cited 5,113×
• Patterson v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-17· cited 2,751×
• United States v. Bailey
  Supreme Court· 1980-01-21· cited 1,333×
• Dixon v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2006-06-22· cited 406×
• Barrett v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1976-01-13· cited 306×
• United States v. Arthur Ronald Crittendon A/K/A Jabbar Muwakkil Ragib
  Fourth Circuit· 1989-08-29· cited 237×
• Small v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2005-04-26· cited 191×
• United States v. Deleveaux
  Eleventh Circuit· 2000-03-09· cited 172×
• Alfred Coles v. C. C. Peyton, Superintendent of the Virginia State Penitentiary
  Fourth Circuit· 1968-01-08· cited 169×
• United States v. Charles Odell Perrin
  Fourth Circuit· 1995-01-31· cited 140×
• United States v. Leonard D. Singleton
  Sixth Circuit· 1990-05-03· cited 115×
• United States v. Anthony J. Paolello Anthony J. Paolello
  Third Circuit· 1991-12-04· cited 96×
• United States v. Lester Giles Panter
  Fifth Circuit· 1982-09-16· cited 95×
• United States v. Reginald Dodd
  Third Circuit· 2000-08-24· cited 85×
• United States v. Leahy
  First Circuit· 2007-01-19· cited 72×
• Larry Donnell Becton v. Talmadge Barnett Attorney General of North Carolina
  Fourth Circuit· 1990-12-26· cited 58×
• UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Steven Paul GOMEZ, Defendant-Appellant
  Ninth Circuit· 1996-07-26· cited 55×
• United States v. Alphonso Buster Gilbert, Sr.
  Fourth Circuit· 2005-11-28· cited 48×