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2 canonical passages across 2 cases, quoted by 5 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side: they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from United States v. Moses Childs, Jr..

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1 United States v. Moses Childs, Jr. Anchor
ca8 · 2005
green “are inherently dangerous and lack usefulness except for violent and criminal purposes.” 3
2 United States v. Boaz
ca8 · 2009
green “in determining whether this crime is a violent felony, we consider the offense generically, that is to say, we examine it in terms of how the law defines the offense and not in terms of how an individual offender might have committed it on a particular occasion.” 2

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