Brown v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
403 F.2d 489 · 1968
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently May 2005 · most notably United States v. Pheaster (1976), United States v. Perez (1973)
33 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
Relies on Wong Tai v. United States · Thomas v. United States · Stein v. United States · Davis 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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he writing on the note was not hearsay, as it was offered to show knowledge by appellant of one 'Ramon' who may or may not have been an associate of the alleged supplier of the drugs.”
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.