Brown v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

29 federal appellate ·

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.

1. ““However, in enacting the laws which Mr. Wallace is accused in this action of violating, it was the purpose of the Congress to eliminate the interstate traffic in unlawfully obtained motor vehicles in an effort to combat effectively the rising traffic in stolen automobiles operating across state lines. And this purpose of the Congress cannot be defeated by combining parts of one stolen motor vehicle which has been moved in interstate commerce and parts of another motor vehicle which has not been stolen, into one rebuilt motor vehicle. “So, if you should find that the motor vehicle involved in this litigation included major parts which were stolen, it is no defense that some of its parts were not stolen.””

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

2. ““ ‘Stolen’ as used in 18 U.S.C. § 2312 includes all felonious takings of motor vehicles with intent to deprive the owner of the rights and benefits of ownership, regardless of whether or not the theft constitutes common-law larceny.””

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