United States v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
518 F.2d 821 · 1975
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably United States v. Patrick (1976), United States v. Shaw (1983)
23 federal appellate · 1 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. § 1111
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Allen v. United States · Cupp v. Naughten · Cole v. United States · Pointer 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) Murder is the unlawful killing of a human being with malice aforethought. Every murder perpetrated by poison, lying in wait, or any other kind of willful, deliberate, malicious, and premeditated killing ... is murder in the first degree. Any other murder is murder in the second degree.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the fact that cruelty or brutality is manifested in a killing will raise an inference of malice and the length of time of premeditation is not material.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'the killing is done after a period of time for prior consideration'”
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.