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James v. United States

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Overruled
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Citation
550 U.S. 192
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
143 of 143
Citing cases (total)
1,145
Treatment dates
2015
Overruled
A reviewed court has overruled this case. James v. United States was overruled by the Supreme Court's decision in Johnson v. United States. The Court held the Armed Career Criminal Act's residual clause unconstitutionally vague and expressly overruled James's contrary residual-clause holding.
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All 143 flagged citations have been read; the one confirmed adverse treatment is listed below. Later lower-court opinions that say Johnson overruled James report the Supreme Court's act rather than add new treatments, while the other citing opinions apply James, discuss its effect on different precedent, reject party arguments, or place unrelated treatment language near the citation.

Every treatment on this page is written from the citing opinion itself, with a verbatim quote, never copied from a commercial citator. A citation flagged by our screen but not shown here was read and found not to weaken this case.

1,145 later cases cite James v. United States; 143 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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Treatments

Overruled

  • The Supreme Court held the Armed Career Criminal Act's residual clause unconstitutionally vague and expressly overruled James's contrary residual-clause holding.

    Johnson v. United States · Supreme Court of the United States · filed

    We hold that imposing an increased sentence under the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act violates the Constitution's guarantee of due process. Our contrary holdings in Jamesand Sykesare overruled.
    Read the full opinion on CourtListener →

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