United States v. Brock’s Empirical Analysis
408 F.2d 322 · 1969
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently September 1999
5 federal appellate · 3 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 26 U.S.C. § 5205 · 26 U.S.C. § 5604
Relies on Federal Power Commission v. Sierra Pacific Power Co. · Groendyke Transport, Inc. v. Davis · Odom v. United States · Lehigh Valley Cooperative Farmers, Inc. v. United States · McKnight 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Appellant would have us presume that policemen are on familiar terms only with known criminals. The facts of life are otherwise. The mere fact of a prior acquaintance with officers of the law is as consistent with perfectly innocent activities as it is with prior criminal conduct. In view of this fact, we find that prejudice can result from allusions to a defendant’s prior acquaintance with the police only where it is coupled with some circumstance indicative of prior criminal activity, or where such allusion serves no legitimate purpose and is accompanied by innuendo.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Saldane v. State
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.