523 U.S. 614 (1998) Cited 13,689 times 10 Legal Analyses
Holding that the rule announced in Bailey v. United States, 516 U.S. 137, 116 S.Ct. 501, 133 L.Ed.2d 472, which narrowed the scope of the term "use" in § 924(c), applied retroactively
442 U.S. 114 (1979) Cited 1,723 times 7 Legal Analyses
Holding that the imposition of different imprisonment terms under different, but partially overlapping, firearm-possession statutes does not violate equal protection
Holding that a subsequently-nullified career offender designation did not constitute a fundamental defect such that the nullified designation could serve as a basis for vacating the sentence, where defendant had been sentenced under an advisory sentencing scheme and neither the offense of conviction nor the state convictions used as predicates for career offender status had been vacated
Holding that because Johnson's rule “prohibit ‘a certain category of punishment for a class of defendants because of their status' ... [t]here is no escaping the logical conclusion that the [Supreme] Court itself has made Johnson categorically retroactive to cases on collateral review”
18 U.S.C. § 924 Cited 66,153 times 187 Legal Analyses
Holding that conviction for eluding police, under Maine statute which provides that "[w]hoever, after being requested or signaled to stop, attempts to elude a law enforcement officer by driving a vehicle at a reckless rate of speed which results in a high-speed chase between the operator's vehicle and any law enforcement vehicle using a blue light and siren is guilty" of a felony-level crime, involves conduct that presents a serious potential risk of physical injury to another for purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 924(e)