United States v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently September 2000
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 10 U.S.C. § 806 · 10 U.S.C. § 826 · 10 U.S.C. § 839 · 28 U.S.C. § 516 · 28 U.S.C. § 547
Relies on Santobello v. New York · United States v. Nixon · Federal Crop Ins Corporation v. Merrill · United States Ex Rel. Toth v. Quarles · United States v. Blue
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“They are not sanctioned by Air Force Regulation, policy or practice or by previous decisions of the United States Court of Military Appeals or by this Court. Moreover, they are pernicious and disruptive of the due administration of military justice. When oral, as here, they are difficult or impossible to interpret or enforce.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.