United States v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
692 F.2d 345 · 1982
Citation profile
51 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently August 2006 · most notably United States v. Jackson (1983), United States v. Richerson (1987)
51 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 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 843 (§ 403 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Kotteakos v. United States · Franks v. Delaware · Goldstein v. United States · Brewer v. United States · United States v. James
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In a harmless error examination, `[w]e must view the error, not in isolation, but in relation to the entire proceedings.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the content of the order was neither relevant nor probative to the jury's task of evaluating the actual wire-tap conversations”
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.