United States v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
823 F.2d 591 · 1987
Citation profile
63 federal appellate · 15 district · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 144 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2024 · most notably United States v. Thomas (1997), 25 Cal. 4th 466 - People v. Cleveland (2001)
63 federal appellate · 15 district · 37 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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. § 1961 (§ 901 of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 2518 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986)
Relies on Faretta v. California · Pinkerton v. United States · Nye & Nissen v. United States · Houltin v. United States · Alder 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 144 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if the record evidence discloses any possibility that the request to discharge stems from the juror's view of the sufficiency of the government's evidence, the court must deny the request.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“may not dismiss a juror during deliberations if the request for discharge stems from doubts the juror harbors about the sufficiency of the government's evidence.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[A] court may not delve deeply into a juror's motivations because it may not intrude on the secrecy of the jury's deliberations.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. People v. Kriho · State v. Elmore
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.