United States v. Brink’s Empirical Analysis
39 F.3d 419 · 1994
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 5 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably United States v. Voigt (1996), Abrams v. Lightolier Inc. (1995)
26 federal appellate · 5 district · 25 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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. § 2113 · 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Arizona v. Fulminante · United States v. Frady · Massiah v. United States · Sullivan v. Louisiana
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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If at trial the eyewitness fails to remember or denies that he made the identification, the previous statements of the eyewitness can be proved by the testimony of a person to whom the statement was made, and the statement can be given substantive effect.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Collins · State v. Coleman“(c) One of identification of a person made after perceiving the person;”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Collins · State v. Stokes“Generally, evidence is admitted under Rule 801(d)(1)(C) [the federal counterpart to the Louisiana rule] when a witness has identified the defendant in a lineup or photospread, but forgets, or changes, his testimony at trial.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.