Brown v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
334 F.2d 488 · 1964
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2017
15 federal appellate · 2 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 12 U.S.C. § 1812 · 12 U.S.C. § 377 · 15 U.S.C. § 19 (§ 8 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914) · 18 U.S.C. § 1909 · 18 U.S.C. § 281 · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 29 U.S.C. § 504 · 49 U.S.C. § 1321
Relies on Dusky v. United States · Schneider v. State · Schware v. Board of Bar Examiners of NM · Dennis v. United States · Yates v. United States
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.
“when we considered the constitutionality of Section 504 of the Labor Management Reporting Act, 29 U.S.C. § 504, which made it a crime for a member of the Communist Party to hold office in a labor union. The statute did not expressly require proof that the Communist member union officer had the”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a statute which attributed to an individual member of an organization, seemingly on the basis of membership alone, criminal conduct in which the organization was found to be engaged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“intent to bring about the evil the statute was designed to prevent or to further other unlawful aims of the Party....”
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.