United States v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
921 F.2d 785 · 1990
Citation profile
43 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably United States v. Rusher (1992), United States v. Martinez (1995)
43 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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. § 3553 · 18 U.S.C. § 3742 · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Solem v. Helm · Carnegie v. United States · Railway Labor Executives' Ass'n v. Ogilvie · Dames & Moore v. Regan
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he standard to be applied to determine the sufficiency of the evidence is a strict one, and the finding of guilt should not be overturned lightly.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If it appears that a defendant or the government is prejudiced by a joinder of offenses or of defendants in an indictment or information or by such joinder for trial together, the court may order an election or separate trials of counts, grant a severance of defendants or provide whatever other relief justice requires.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]t is neither arbitrary nor irrational to sentence according to the total quantity of the PCP mixture involved, without regard to the purity.”
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.