United States v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
448 F.3d 239 · 2006
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 18 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 125 later decisions — most recently December 2023 · most notably Atkinson v. City of Mountain View (2013), James v. City of Wilkes-Barre (2012)
32 federal appellate · 18 district · 6 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 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Illinois v. Gates · Wong Sun v. United States · United States v. Mendenhall · United States v. Cortez
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 125 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“held responsible if her allegations turn out to be fabricated,”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a reasonable, trained officer standing in [the detaining officer's] shoes could articulate specific reasons justifying”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A]n officer may, consistent with the Fourth Amendment, conduct a brief , investigatory stop when the officer has a reasonable, articulable suspicion that criminal activity is afoot.”
4 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.