United States v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
49 F.3d 1346 · 1995
Citation profile
34 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently July 2020 · most notably United States v. Olivera-Mendez (2007), Walden v. Carmack (1998)
34 federal appellate ·
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 Illinois v. Gates · Draper v. United States · Ayrs v. Yanik · United States v. Bloomfield · United States v. Dawdy
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where a previously unknown informant provides information, the informant's lack of a track record requires 'some independent verification' to establish the reliability of the information.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“certain aspects of [informant's] prediction (the innocent behavior) increases the probability that other aspects of his prediction (the criminal behavior) are also correct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“does not depend upon individual facts; rather it depends on the cumulative effect of the facts in the totality of the circumstances.”
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.