United States v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
591 F.2d 307 · 1979
Citation profile
63 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently August 2020 · most notably United States v. Phillips (1981), United States v. Higdon (1987)
63 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 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 26 U.S.C. § 7203 · 26 U.S.C. § 7205 · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Faretta v. California · Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · Holland v. United States · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As a general rule, claims of inadequate representation which have not been raised before the district court cannot be raised on direct appeal... Such claims have been relegated to later petitions under 28 U.S.C.A. § 2255 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“and the statements he made regarding the payment of taxes buttressed the circumstantial evidence on the willfulness of his actions. Further, he was not protected by the Fifth Amendment in filing such a”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a defendant does not have a Sixth Amendment right to representation by a lay person.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bonacci v. Kindt
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.