United States v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
429 F.2d 566 · 1970
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2021 · most notably Warden Lewisburg Penitentiary v. Marrero (1974), Warden v. Marrero (1974)
20 federal appellate · 1 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 1 U.S.C. § 109 · 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act)
Relies on United States v. Reisinger · Great Northern Railway Company v. United States · United States v. Carter · Bowen 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The repeal of any statute shall not have the effect to release or extinguish any penalty, forfeiture, or liability incurred under such statute, unless the repealing Act shall so expressly provide, and such statute shall be treated as still remaining in force for the purpose of sustaining any proper action or prosecution for the enforcement of such penalty, forfeiture, or liability.”
6 later decisions 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.