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Chambers v. United States

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Criticized by some courts
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Citation
555 U.S. 122
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
68 of 68
Citing cases (total)
68
Treatment dates
2015
Criticized by some courts
At least one reviewed court has criticized this case’s reasoning. No reviewed court has overruled it. The Supreme Court criticized Chambers v. United States's analysis of the Armed Career Criminal Act's residual clause. All 68 flagged citations have been read.
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Johnson v. United States later held that clause unconstitutional; it expressly overruled two other decisions, but did not overrule Chambers's conclusion that failure to report is outside the clause. The confirmed criticism is listed below. The full opinions in United States v. Troy Powell (citing opinion 807038) and United States v. Jason Lee (citing opinion 3201356) contain no Chambers citation despite being flagged in the index. Neither supports an adverse treatment.

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.

68 later cases cite Chambers v. United States; 68 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

Criticized

  • The Supreme Court said Chambers's risk analysis failed to provide a generally applicable test for the ACCA residual clause.

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

    All in all, James,Chambers,and Sykesfailed to establish any generally applicable test that prevents the risk comparison required by the residual clause from devolving into guesswork and intuition.
    Read the full opinion on CourtListener →

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