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United States v. Shannon Ferguson

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Abrogated
Court
Sixth Circuit
Citation
868 F.3d 514
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
29 of 29
Citing cases (total)
29
Treatment dates
2018
Abrogated
A reviewed court treats this case as abrogated by later authority. United States v. Shannon Ferguson was abrogated on Tennessee aggravated burglary, but its holding on Class D Tennessee burglary remains in force. All 29 flagged citations have been read.
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Ferguson followed the Sixth Circuit's en banc United States v. Stitt ruling when it said aggravated burglary convictions did not count under the Armed Career Criminal Act. The Supreme Court reversed that ruling in 2018, holding that the Tennessee aggravated burglary statute falls within generic burglary. Christopher Mitchell v. United States later described the reversal while continuing to apply Ferguson's separate Class D burglary holding. The higher court's treatment is listed below.

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.

29 later cases cite United States v. Shannon Ferguson; 29 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

Abrogated

  • The Supreme Court held that Tennessee aggravated burglary falls within generic burglary under the Armed Career Criminal Act, displacing Ferguson's contrary statement drawn from the Sixth Circuit's Stitt 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.
    Read the full opinion on CourtListener →

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