Brooks v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
423 F.2d 1149 · 1970
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Commonwealth v. Pounds (1980), Perez v. Sullivan (1986)
16 federal appellate · 19 state decisions — followed in 16 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. § 2312
Relies on Hill v. United States · United States v. Ewell · Smith v. Hooey · Pollard v. United States · Smith 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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he sensitive concerns which surround the necessity of a speedy trial on the merits of a case generally are not applicable when the delay is between conviction and sentencing. There exists here no concern over “oppressive incarceration” before trial, “anxiety” over public accusation before trial, or any “impairment” over the petitioner’s ability to defend himself.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is unnecessary for us to make a decision at this time as to whether an unreasonable delay in sentencing constitutes an infringement of a jurisdictional or constitutional right. We hold that there has not been, under constitutional standards, any “purposeful” or “oppressive” delay in this particular case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Despain v. State“the essential ingredient of the Sixth Amendment right to a speedy trial is "orderly expedition and not mere speed."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.