Brown v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
610 F.2d 672 · 1980
Citation profile
54 federal appellate · 7 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2023 · most notably Custis v. United States (1994), United States v. Conforte (1980)
54 federal appellate · 7 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. § 2314 · 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Gideon v. Wainwright · McMann v. Richardson · United States v. Tucker · Townsend v. Burke · Patterson v. United States
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A petition under ... [section] 2241 must be addressed to the district court which has jurisdiction over ... [Ned] or his custodian.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“This finding, based on the court's own recollection of [petitioner's] sentencing, will not be overridden.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Feldman v. Perrill
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.