United States v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
66 F.3d 124 · 1995
Citation profile
33 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently December 2011 · most notably United States v. Stewart (2002), United States v. Abboud (2006)
33 federal appellate ·
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. § 371 · 18 U.S.C. § 666
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Colorado v. Connelly · Haynes v. Washington · Lane v. Peterson · Sowashee Venture v. EB, 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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“when (1) the proof against the defendant was not overwhelming, (2) opposing counsel objected to the conduct, and (3) the district court failed to give a curative instruction.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] lower court's informed decision not to depart from a valid guideline range is not reviewable.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n the absence of an objection, only flagrant conduct will warrant a 'plain error' reversal.”
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.