United States v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
791 F.2d 577 · 1986
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 2025
5 federal appellate · 2 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. § 401
Relies on Faretta v. California · Illinois v. Allen · Maness v. Meyers · Taylor v. United States · Harris 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Brown's conduct led the court to call off the trial, sending prosecutor and witnesses home. This is a serious interference with the process of justice.... Brown's obstreperous conduct brought this trial to a halt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] court faced with a defendant's refusal to proceed ... may ... rescind the defendant's permission to proceed as his own counsel.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“forfeited his right to represent himself”
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.