United States v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
604 F.2d 347 · 1979
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably United States v. Basey (1987), United States v. Ivic (1983)
24 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
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Wilson v. United States · United States v. Bailey · Infelice v. United States · Union Carbide Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A substantial step must be conduct strongly corroborative of the firmness of the defendant’s criminal intent.”). 23 . Mandujano, 499 F.2d at 377 . 24 . 632 F.3d at 199-200 . 25 . 499 F.2d 370 (5th Cir.1974). 26 . 525 F.2d 881 (5th Cir.1976). 27 . Hernandez-Galvan, 632 F.3d at 199 ; see also United States v. Ellis, 564 F.3d 370 , 374 (5th Cir.2009) (noting that the definition of substantial step that we used in Mandujano”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he evidence shows that Brown (1) made a firm agreement with [one of the agents] for acquisition of the explosives needed to blow up the store and (2) dispatched [both agents] to reconnoiter and inspect the building in preparation for its destruction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“nothing more than mere preparation and that preparation is not an attempt.”
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.