United States v. Ricks

How courts have described this case

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

• rejecting “a bright-line rule that the only reasonable way for a felon to dispossess himself of a gun he has justifiably come to possess is to turn that gun over to the police”
• “We agree with the government that a defendant seeking a justification instruction must produce evidence that he took reasonable steps to dispossess himself of the weapon once the threat entitling him to possess it abated.” (internal quotation marks omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lewis
  Third Circuit· 2010-09-08· cited 88×
• United States v. Kenneth Still
  Eighth Circuit· 2021-07-27· cited 7×
• NEGUSIE
  Board of Immigration Appeals· 2018-07-01· cited 6×
• United States v. Cristian Cabrera-Rivas
  Fourth Circuit· 2025-06-30· cited 4×
• Evans v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2023-11-16

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Mathews v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1988-02-24· cited 1,244×
• United States v. Arthur Ronald Crittendon A/K/A Jabbar Muwakkil Ragib
  Fourth Circuit· 1989-08-29· cited 237×
• United States v. Cedric Orlando Lewis
  Fourth Circuit· 1995-04-17· cited 156×
• United States v. Herbert Randolph Blue
  Fourth Circuit· 1992-02-19· cited 155×
• 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. Lester Giles Panter
  Fifth Circuit· 1982-09-16· cited 95×
• United States v. Adkins
  Tenth Circuit· 1999-11-12· cited 75×
• United States v. Al-Rekabi
  Tenth Circuit· 2006-07-17· cited 69×
• United States v. Scott
  Fourth Circuit· 2005-09-20· cited 49×
• United States v. Ovidio Camejo, Luis Rivera-Torres, Livingston K. Smith, Luis F. Setien, Raul Anchia
  Eleventh Circuit· 1991-04-22· cited 43×
• United States v. Mooney
  Fourth Circuit· 2007-08-06· cited 41×
• United States v. Marvin Charles Parker
  Fifth Circuit· 1978-02-06· cited 39×
• United States v. Steve Fiedeke
  Seventh Circuit· 2004-09-15· cited 14×