United States v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
801 F.2d 352 · 1986
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 2 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently March 2020 · most notably United States v. Wells (2000), United States v. Hartmann (1992)
28 federal appellate · 2 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 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Santobello v. New York · Gilbert v. First National Bank of Jackson · Starnes v. United States · United States v. Calabrese · United States v. Baldacchino
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Generally speaking, a cooperation-immunity agreement is contractual in nature and subject to contract law standards.... The language of the contract is to be read as a whole and given a reasonable interpretation, not an interpretation that would produce absurd results.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“fundamental fairness requires the government to uphold its part of the agreement and the district court may enforce the agreement.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he statements made in reliance upon this agreement will not be used against [Glenn] Duane Brown except in a prosecution for perjury or false statement.”
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.