United States v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
776 F.2d 397 · 1985
Citation profile
122 federal appellate · 4 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 185 later decisions — most recently April 2021 · most notably United States v. Nersesian (1987), United States v. Maldonado-Rivera (1990)
122 federal appellate · 4 district · 15 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. § 812 (§ 202 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Glasser v. United States · United States v. Powell · Dunn v. United States · Krulewitch v. United States
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 185 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[expert] testimony casting [defendant] in the role of a steerer comes close to, although it is not within”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“will assist the trier of fact to understand the evidence or to determine a fact in issue.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“aura of special reliability and trustworthiness”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.