United States v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
32 F.3d 236 · 1994
Citation profile
13 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently January 2011
13 federal appellate ·
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. § 17 · 18 U.S.C. § 2113
Relies on United States v. Hillsberg · United States v. West · United States v. Reno · United States v. Manley
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No expert witness testifying with respect to the mental state or condition of a defendant in a criminal case may state an opinion or inference as to whether the defendant did or did not have the mental state or condition constituting an element of the crime charged or of a defense thereto. Such ultimate issues are matters for the trier of fact alone.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Q: Dr. Schefner, does a finding that a person suffers from unipolar major depression in and of itself indicate that a person is unable to understand the wrongfulness of his acts? A: No. Q: Dr. Schefner, does a finding that a person suffers from major depressive episode with psychotic features in and of itself indicate that a person is unable to understand the wrongfulness of his acts? A: No. Q: Dr. Schefner, a slightly different question. Does a finding that a person suffers from major depressive episode with psychotic features in and of itself indicate that a person is unable to understand the nature or quality of his acts? A: No.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]t is the province of the jury to determine whether the defendant has carried his burden of proving his legal insanity, but the psychiatrist's opinion regarding the defendant's mental status in the psychiatric or psychological sense is quite useful, even critical, to the jury's deliberation”
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.