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United States v. Victor Stitt

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Reversed
Court
Sixth Circuit
Citation
860 F.3d 854
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
41 of 41
Citing cases (total)
41
Treatment dates
2018
Reversed
A higher court reversed this decision. Do not rely on it for the points reversed; the history below says what the higher court did. The Supreme Court reversed United States v. Victor Stitt's 2017 judgment that Tennessee aggravated burglary is outside the Armed Career Criminal Act's definition of burglary. All 41 flagged citations have been read.
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The reversal is listed below. The Sixth Circuit has since treated Tennessee aggravated burglary as qualifying burglary, including in United States v. Brumbach, 929 F.3d 791 (6th Cir. 2019).

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.

41 later cases cite United States v. Victor Stitt; 41 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

Reversed

  • The Supreme Court held that burglary of a vehicle adapted or customarily used for overnight accommodation falls within the Act's generic burglary definition, reversing the Sixth Circuit's contrary ruling.

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

    The relevant language of the Tennessee and Arkansas statutes falls within the scope of generic burglary’s definition as set forth in Taylor. ... In 1986, a majority of state burglary statutes covered vehicles adapted or customarily used for lodging—either explicitly or by defining “building” or “structure” to include those vehicles. ... We reverse the judgment of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.
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