United States v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
608 F.2d 551 · 1979
Citation profile
43 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2019 · most notably United States v. Boise (1990), United States v. Wilson (1983)
43 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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. § 113 · 18 U.S.C. § 13 (Assimilative Crimes Act)
Relies on United States v. Beechum · Williams v. United States · United States v. Sharpnack · United States v. Sink
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“§ 18. Laws of States adopted for areas within Federal jurisdiction. (a) Whoever ... is guilty of any act or omission which, although not made punishable by any enactment of Congress, would be punishable if committed or omitted within the jurisdiction of the State, Territory, Possession, or District in which such place is situated, by the laws thereof in force at the time of such act or omission, shall be guilty of a like offense and subject to a like punishment.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The purpose of the Assimilative Crimes Act (ACA) is to provide a set of criminal laws for federal enclaves by the use of the penal law of the local state to fill the gaps in federal criminal law.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“no act of Congress directly makes a defendant's conduct punishable.”
2 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.