United States v. Brake’s Empirical Analysis
596 F.2d 337 · 1979
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently July 2014 · most notably United States v. Ammar (1983), United States v. Prieskorn (1981)
27 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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. § 493
Relies on Barrett v. United States · United States v. Brown · United States v. Rabbitt · United States v. Nance · United States v. Hill
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is clear to us that the jury understood the defense theory and that under the instructions of the court defense counsel could, and doubtless did make an adequate argument on the basis of that theory.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is well established that a defendant in a criminal case is entitled to an instruction on his theory of the case if there is evidence to support it and a proper request is made. A proper request is one which is timely, is supported by the evidence and sets forth a correct statement of the law.”
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.