Brown v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
665 F.2d 271 · 1982
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently October 2001
16 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Cuyler v. Sullivan · Justices of Boston Municipal Court v. Lydon · Whitten v. United States · Cooper v. Fitzharris · United States v. Hearst
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'actual prejudice' test of Cooper v. Fitzharris.' 586 F.2d 1325 (9th Cir.1978) (en banc), cert. denied, 440 U.S. 974, 99 S.Ct. 1542, 59 L.Ed.2d 793 (1979).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“cannot, of itself, justify the denial of relief under Sec. 2255 once there has been a finding of actual conflict of interest...”
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.