Brown v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

101 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 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 113 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““As the Court said in Brown v. United States, 9 Cir., 1955, 222 F.2d 293 , 296: “ ‘In logic it would appear that if defendants knew the drugs were imported contrary to law, the fact that they actually were imported contrary to law is inherent therein.’ ””

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

2. ““As stated by this court in Iva Ikuko Toguri D’Aquino v. United States, 9 Cir., 1951, 192 F.2d 338 , 367, “ ‘Our system of jurisprudence properly makes it a matter primarily for the discretion of the trial court to determine whether prejudicial misconduct has occurred. An appellate court will not review the exercise of the trial court’s discretion in such a matter unless the misconduct and prejudice is so clear that it can be said that the trial judge has been guilty of an abuse of discretion.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Sherman v. United States

3. “On Count Two for selling one ounce, 324 grains, of heroin on March 4, 1953. On Count Three for selling one ounce, 440 grains, of heroin on March 13, 1953. On Count Four for receiving, concealing and facilitating the transportation of one ounce, 324 grains, of heroin. On Count Five for receiving, concealing and facilitating the transportation of one ounce, 440 grains, of heroin.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Brown v. United States