Brown v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
56 F.2d 997 · 1932
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently September 1987
15 federal appellate · 3 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 28 U.S.C. § 632
Relies on Raffel v. United States · Benson v. United States · Rogers Park Water Co. v. Fergus · Kettenbach v. United States · State v. Pfefferle
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The purpose of the law was to make defendants competent witnesses, but at the same time preserve to them the right to remain silent without prejudice.”
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.