Brown v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
October 2016
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Fields v. United States · Morris 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In Morris v. United States, [ 486 A.2d 377 ,] 378 [D.C.1981] [per curiam], this court expressly concluded that “the procedures of § 23-lll(b) are ... mandatory ... but only ‘before enhanced penalties may be invoked.’ ... Where the substantive offense for which the defendant is convicted carries a potential life sentence ... the court cannot impose any ‘greater’ sentence ‘in lieu of the sentence otherwise authorized, because there is nothing greater than a life sentence .... ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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