United States v. Brooklier’s Empirical Analysis
685 F.2d 1208 · 1982
Citation profile
121 federal appellate · 12 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 179 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2020 · most notably Schreiber Distributing Co. v. Serv-Well Furniture Co. (1986), Brooklier v. United States (1983)
121 federal appellate · 12 district · 11 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. § 1510 · 18 U.S.C. § 1951 (Hobbs Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 1961 (§ 901 of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 1962 (§ 901 of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 2518 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986)
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Blockburger v. United States · Bruton v. United States · Franks v. Delaware · North Carolina v. Alford
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 179 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a perjurer, paid informant, and murderer who escaped the death penalty by cooperating with the FBI”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“factual impossibility is no defense to an inchoate offense”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Although ... plea agreements are admissible on the issue of bias, they are not to be used as a basis for supporting the truthfulness of the witness' testimony.”
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.