United States v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
522 F.2d 10 · 1975
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently May 2016
12 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 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 952
Relies on Wingo v. Wedding · Johnson v. United States · Busby v. United States · United States v. Walling · United States v. Carl S. Petersen, Defendant- United States of America v. Joseph Arthur Zappia, Jr.
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“find[s] that the law has been violated as charged, you shouldn't hesitate to return a verdict of guilty,”
3 later decisions 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.