United States v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
470 F.2d 285 · 1972
Citation profile
56 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Farrow v. United States (1978), United States v. Robin (1977)
56 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 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 21 U.S.C. § 849 (§ 409 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 50 U.S.C. § 3811
Relies on Santobello v. New York · Gillette v. United States · Marietta Norton v. The Discipline Committee of East Tennessee State University · Lego v. Twomey · Verdugo 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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure were amended in 1966 to provide ... that the sentencing court "may disclose" the pre-sentence report, it certainly was intended that the sentencing court exercise its discretion in each case. It is equally clear that when a judge states, as he did here, that in effect his policy is never to disclose presentence reports, that is not an exercise of discretion on an individual basis. Discretion under [then-]Rule 32(c)(2) must be exercised on a case-by-case basis, not by a blanket policy of non-disclosure.”
1 later decision 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.