United States v. Robert W. Edwards

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the government must prove that the defendant knew that the barrel of his shotgun was less than eighteen inches
• noting that the fact that the shotgun's length is externally obvious is a means of proving knowledge
• noting that knowledge of the weapon’s length can be inferred from a sawed-off weapon’s appearance
• noting that the fact that the shotgun’s length is externally obvious is a means of proving knowledge
• “[T]he fact that Staples itself involved a machinegun belies any attempt to read into the passage a general exemption to the mens rea require ment for such ‘quasi-suspect’ guns....”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

19 cases in this archive cite this case.

• United States v. Michel
  Tenth Circuit· 2006-05-10· cited 66×
• United States v. Miguel Enrique Reyna
  Fifth Circuit· 1997-11-25· cited 60×
• United States v. Willie C. Jones
  Seventh Circuit· 2000-07-21· cited 44×
• United States v. Hector Tovar
  Fifth Circuit· 2013-06-07· cited 39×
• United States v. Wesley B. Dewalt
  D.C. Circuit· 1996-08-20· cited 32×
• UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Mika GERGEN, Defendant-Appellant
  Ninth Circuit· 1999-04-16· cited 32×
• United States v. Corey A. Moore
  D.C. Circuit· 1996-10-11· cited 22×
• United States v. Shaw
  First Circuit· 2012-02-29· cited 21×
• State v. Hill
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1998-06-16· cited 19×
• State v. Young
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1998-05-07· cited 15×
• United States v. Sanders, DeAngelo
  Seventh Circuit· 2008-03-21· cited 11×
• United States v. Ronald White, Jr.
  Eighth Circuit· 2017-07-11· cited 10×
• United States v. Samy Hamzeh
  Seventh Circuit· 2021-02-03· cited 7×
• United States v. Dennis Jamison
  Seventh Circuit· 2011-03-18· cited 5×
• United States v. Ronald White, Jr.
  Eighth Circuit· 2016-06-02· cited 1×
• United States v. Rivera
  District of Columbia· 2018-03-08· cited 1×
• United States v. Reyna
  Fifth Circuit· 1997-12-24
• United States v. Orozco-Martinez
  E.D. Wisconsin· 2006-07-23
• United States v. Jones, Willie C.
  Seventh Circuit· 2000-07-21

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Staples v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1994-05-23· cited 1,491×
• United States v. Freed
  Supreme Court· 1971-04-05· cited 677×
• United States v. Marvin Edward Mains
  Tenth Circuit· 1994-08-19· cited 106×
• The United States of America v. Joe Alvin Anderson
  Fifth Circuit· 1989-09-28· cited 75×
• United States v. Robert J. Knorr
  Seventh Circuit· 1991-10-29· cited 70×
• United States v. Katherine Isabel Barr
  Eighth Circuit· 1994-09-29· cited 40×
• United States v. William Edward Starkes
  Fourth Circuit· 1994-08-10· cited 34×
• United States v. Ralph R. Ross
  Seventh Circuit· 1990-11-05· cited 27×
• UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Jerry Lee IMES, Jr., Defendant-Appellant
  Ninth Circuit· 1996-04-05· cited 11×