Mathis v. United States

Holding that a court employing the categorical approach "looks to a limited class of documents"

Descamps v. United States

Holding that courts "may look only to the statutory definitions—i.e ., the elements—of a defendant’s prior offenses"

Taylor v. United States

Holding that the term "burglary" as used in the Armed Career Criminal Act was to be given its "generic, contemporary meaning" to avoid a scenario in which "a person ... would, or would not, receive a sentence enhancement based on exactly the same conduct, depending on whether the State of his prior conviction happened to call that conduct ‘burglary’ "

Moncrieffe v. Holder

Holding that sharing marijuana not an aggravated felony

Voisine v. United States

Holding that the phrase "use of force," standing alone, encompasses crimes committed with ordinary recklessness

Torres v. Lynch

Holding an aggravated felony conviction renders an alien ineligible for cancellation of removal

U.S. v. Grisel

Holding that where "a state statute explicitly defines a crime more broadly than the generic definition, no ‘legal imagination,’ is required to hold that a realistic probability exists that the state will apply its statute to conduct that falls outside the generic definition of the crime" (citing Duenas-Alvarez , 549 U.S. at 193, 127 S.Ct. 815 )

U.S. v. Oca

Addressing when modified categorical approach applies

Almanza-Arenas v. Lynch

Holding that we "need not go beyond California's pattern criminal jury instructions" to resolve divisibility

Young v. Holder

Holding in the cancellation of removal context that “an inconclusive record ... is insufficient to satisfy the alien's burden of proof”

Section 1227 - Deportable aliens

Granting this discretion to the Attorney General

Section 646.9 - [Effective 1/1/2025] Stalking

Stalking statute

Section 2903.211 - Menacing by stalking

Menacing by stalking

Section 2261A - Stalking

Criminalizing interstate travel or use of interstate commerce "with the intent to kill, injure, harass, or intimidate."

Section 750.411h - Stalking; definitions; violation as misdemeanor; penalties; probation; conditions; evidence of continued conduct as rebuttable presumption; additional penalties

Defining stalking as "a willful course of conduct involving repeated or continuing harassment of another individual that would cause a reasonable person to feel terrorized, frightened, intimidated, threatened, harassed, or molested and that actually causes the victim to feel terrorized, frightened, intimidated, threatened, harassed, or molested."

Section 9A.46.110 - Stalking

Defining misdemeanor stalking

Section 784.048 - Stalking; definitions; penalties

Prohibiting repeated acts of following or communicating

Section 18-9-111 - Harassment - Kiana Arellano's Law

Section 76-5-106.5 - Stalking - Definitions - Injunction - Penalties - Duties of law enforcement officer

Stalking Statute

Section 35-45-10-2 - "Harassment" defined

Defining harassment as "conduct directed toward a victim that includes but is not limited to repeated or continuing impermissible contact that would cause a reasonable person to suffer emotional distress and that actually causes the victim to suffer emotional distress."