United States v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
481 F.2d 1035 · 1973
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2008 · most notably Serfass v. United States (1975), United States v. Cowan (1975)
21 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 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. § 3150 (Bail Reform Act of 1984) · 18 U.S.C. § 3731
Relies on Green v. United States · United States v. Jorn · Wade v. Hunter · Illinois v. Somerville · Will 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is no authority under Rule 12 . . . to dismiss on the basis of a sufficiency-of-the-evidence defense which raises factual questions embraced in the general issue.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In a criminal case an appeal by the United States shall lie to a court of appeals from a decision, judgment, or order of a district court dismissing an indictment or information ... except that no appeal shall lie where the double jeopardy clause of the United States Constitution prohibits further prosecution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.