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7 canonical passages across 5 cases, quoted by 797 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 Johnson v. United States.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Johnson v. United States Anchor | green | “violent force-that is, force capable of causing physical pain or injury to another person.” | 334 |
| 2 | Gonzales v. Duenas-Alvarez | green | “a realistic probability, not a theoretical possibility, that the state would apply its statute to conduct that falls outside the generic definition of a crime.” | 160 |
| 3 | Moncrieffe v. Holder | green | “because we examine what the state conviction necessarily involved, not the facts underlying the case, we must presume that the conviction 'rested upon nothing more than the least of the acts' criminalized, and then determine whether even those acts are encompassed by the generic…” | 128 |
| 4 | Gonzales v. Duenas-Alvarez | green | “must at least point to his own case or other cases in which the state courts in fact did apply the statute in the special (nongeneric) manner for which he argues.” | 112 |
| 5 | Gonzales v. Duenas-Alvarez | green | “requires more than the application of legal imagination to a state statute's language.” | 35 |
| 6 | Stokeling v. United States | green | “does not require any particular degree of likelihood or probability that the force used will cause physical pain or injury; only potentiality.” | 23 |
| 7 | Galeana-Mendoza v. Gonzales | green | “divided crimes involving moral turpi- tude into two basic types: 'those involving fraud and those involving grave acts of baseness or depravity.” | 5 |
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