United States v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
31 F.3d 484 · 1994
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1344 · 18 U.S.C. § 1956 (§ 1352 of the Money Laundering Control Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 371
Relies on Blockburger v. United States · North Carolina v. Pearce · United States v. Dixon · Grady v. Corbin · Alabama v. Smith
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.
“knowing that the property involved in a financial transaction represents the proceeds of some form of unlawful activity, conducts or attempts to conduct such a financial transaction which in fact involves the proceeds of specified unlawful activity ... knowing that the transaction is designed in whole or in part ... to conceal or disguise the nature, the location, the source, the ownership, or the control of the proceeds of specified unlawful activity.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Banks which process credit card charges, presumably from consumers in many states, clearly affect interstate commerce.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“even `other acts' evidence is inadmissible if it is also hearsay”
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.