Brown v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
314 F.2d 293 · 1963
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently December 1992 · most notably United States v. Plattner (1964), United States v. Mills (1979)
38 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 2421 (White-Slave Traffic Act of 1910 (Mann Act)) · 28 U.S.C. § 753
Relies on Hill v. United States · Remmer v. United States · Viereck v. United States · Killian v. United States · United States v. Shotwell Manufacturing Co.
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ . . .we would think failure to record counsel’s summation, without more, though error ‘is an error which is neither jurisdictional nor constitutional. It is not a fundamental defect which inherently results in a complete miscarriage of justice, nor an omission inconsistent with the rudimentary demands of fair procedure.’ ” (Quoting Hill v. United States 368 U.S. 424 , 82 S.Ct. 468 , 7 L.Ed.2d 417 [1962].)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he appropriate procedure is to vacate the judgment and remand for a hearing to determine whether appellant was prejudiced by the error in failing to record the arguments. If the trial court concludes that he was, a new trial may be ordered. If the court concludes that he was not, a new final judgment may be entered.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“all proceedings in criminal cases had in open court”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Haacks v. Wainwright
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.