United States v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
72 F.3d 25 · 1995
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably Wendt v. Wendt (2000), Crowe v. Smith (1998)
12 federal appellate · 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 16 U.S.C. § 3371 (Big Cat Public Safety Act)
Relies on Chambers v. Nasco, Inc. · State v. Simpson · In re Thalheim · Chaves v. M/V Medina Star · In Re Petition for Disciplinary Action Against Graham
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Because attorney suspension is a quasi-criminal punishment in character, any disciplinary rules used to impose this sanction on attorneys must be strictly construed resolving ambiguities in favor of the person charged.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[n]othing in [the ABA commentary accompanying the rule] intimates that the rule is to be applied . . . to a lawyer's criticism of a judge's handling of a trial in which the lawyer was involved made in papers filed with that same court in the same proceeding.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Attorneys should be free to challenge, in appropriate legal proceedings, a court's perceived partiality without the court misconstruing such a challenge as an assault on the integrity of the court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Green
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.