Brown v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions

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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Except in some very limited types of situations (none of which is here involved), the commission of a substantive offense and a conspiracy to commit it are distinct crimes and may be separately charged and punished. Pinkerton v. United States, 328 U.S. 640 , 643, 644, 66 S.Ct. 1180 , 1182, 90 L.Ed. 1489 ; American Tobacco Co. v. United States, 328 U.S. 781 , 787-789, 66 S.Ct. 1125 , 1128, 1129, 90 L.Ed. 1575 . And the substantive offense may be charged and punished as a distinct crime, even though the conspiracy charge also sets out the facts involved in the substantive offense as an overt act of the conspiracy. United States v. Bayer, 331 U.S. 532 , 542, 543, 67 S.Ct. 1394 , 1399, 91 L.Ed. 1654 .” [8 Cir., 167 F.2d 774 .]”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Callanan v. United States · United States v. Callanan