United States v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
164 F.3d 518 · 1998
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably United States v. Jackson (2000), United States v. Roberts (1999)
15 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
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
Relies on United States v. Broce · Paul v. A. Levy & J. Zentner Co. · Gross v. Burggraf Construction Co. · United States v. Williamson · Green v. Branson
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“on the basis of all reasonably foreseeable acts and omissions of others in furtherance of the jointly undertaken criminal activity, that occurred during the commission of the offense of conviction, in preparation for that offense, or in the course of attempting to avoid detection or responsibility for that offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Brown was 'very careful' not to admit any conduct occurred within the United States . . . the strategy failed to realize the unconditional plea admitted all material allegations already contained”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the indictment alleged his criminal activity occurred within the United States and he admitted as much when he pleaded guilty unconditionally.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.