United States v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
985 F.2d 478 · 1993
Citation profile
83 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 130 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably United States v. Arias-Villanueva (1993), United States v. Collins (1997)
83 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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. § 2113 · 18 U.S.C. § 3553 · 18 U.S.C. § 3742
Relies on Kashif v. United States · Associated Grocers, Inc. v. Washington · Halas v. Department of Energy · San Vicente Medical Partners, Ltd. v. Orr · United States v. Lira-Barraza
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 130 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“civic, charitable, or public service; employment-related contributions; and similar prior good works are not ordinarily relevant in determining whether a sentence should be outside the applicable guideline range.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the court finds that there exists an aggravating or mitigating circumstance of a kind, or to a degree, not adequately taken into consideration by the Sentencing Commission in formulating the guidelines.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“defendant's criminal history category significantly over-represents the seriousness of a defendant's criminal history or the likelihood that the defendant will commit future crimes”
4 later decisions 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.