United States v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
495 F.2d 593 · 1974
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently May 2014 · most notably United States v. Burton (1978), United States v. Indelicato (1979)
30 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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. § 371 · 18 U.S.C. § 495
Relies on Barker v. Wingo · Berger v. United States · Linkletter v. Walker · United States v. Falcone · Frey 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the question of whether the facts indicate one or more distinct conspiracies is normally a matter of fact to be determined by the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“was now seeking his third attorney in this matter, and had previously been granted a two-week continuance expressly for this purpose”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Brown
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.