559 U.S. 133 (2010) Cited 2,786 times 14 Legal Analyses
Holding that 18 U.S.C. § 924(e) ’s nearly identical "physical force" clause "means violent force—that is, force capable of causing physical pain or injury to another person"
Holding that an offense accomplished by "willfully threaten [ing] to commit a crime which will result in death or great bodily injury" did not "contain an element requiring the use or threatened use of physical force" (first quote from Cal. Penal Code § 422(a) )
Holding that subsection of the Arkansas second-degree battery statute, which provided that a person commits second-degree battery if the person "intentionally or knowingly, without legal justification, causes physical injury to one he knows to be" a member of certain enumerated groups, was a crime of violence (quoting Ark. Code. Ann. § 5-13-202 (2006))