United States v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
451 F.2d 1231 · 1971
Citation profile
71 federal appellate · 1 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions — most recently March 2013 · most notably United States v. Morris (1978), United States v. Garza (1979)
71 federal appellate · 1 district · 12 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 Michelson v. United States · Lawn v. United States · Dunn v. United States · United States v. Ware · Steele 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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(t)he jury thus had before it a neat condensation of the government's whole case against the defendant. The government's witnesses in effect accompanied the jury into the jury room. In these circumstances we cannot say that the error did not influence the jury, to the defendant's detriment, or had but very slight effect.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““This court has passed too many times on this kind of comment by prosecutors to permit it to continue by allowing it to be brushed under the rug under the harmless error doctrine.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(t)he jury thus had before it a neat condensation of the Government's whole case against a defendant.”
2 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.